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Message: [QUOTE="Sean Regan, post: 208288, member: 5841"] I removed a hebe on the rockery, it was getting too big and didn't "look right" in that position. [ATTACH type="full" alt=".jpg"]80228[/ATTACH] It looks better without it, I just spread out the phlox to fill the gap. [ATTACH type="full" alt="P1050149.JPG"]80229[/ATTACH] There was nowhere else to put it, so it went in a pot and was added to, "the alley of shame." Plants that are out of favour that I won't bin are put along the side fence of our drive. [ATTACH type="full" alt="P1050148.JPG"]80230[/ATTACH] We try to discourage the wood pigeons that visit our garden, there's about half a dozen in the vicinity, but we usually only see a couple of them at a time. It's the mess they make every year that annoys me. Each year, they try to nest in this tree in the front garden once it gets into full leaf, as it is today. [ATTACH type="full" alt="P1050151.JPG"]80232[/ATTACH] So it's a case of checking it daily. I have to shake it to get them to move as they spend a lot of time in it before building a nest. I checked it last night and had to chase one off. I checked it again at lunchtime and one was sitting on the scruffy nest it had built this morning. I used my telescopic pruner to chase it off and rip out the nest. They won't be back this year, they'll go elsewhere. [/QUOTE]