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Garden laser grid

I’ve just set up a hi-tech laser defence grid in our garden. Why?

Well, when we first moved in to our current house, the garden was a total jungle. Here are two pictures of one of the flowerbeds, last August:

Messy, huh? The whole garden was thoroughly overgrown, full of plants that were far too big for it.

Seeing as how the weather’s been so nice recently, we finally got round to tackling the problem. After hours toiling in the sun over two weekends, the beds in the photo above were cleared. They were rammed full of bulbs from the plants in the pictures above (I think they’re some kind of crocosmia), so we decided to take them all out and start from scratch. I bought a few nice plants from the Swansea Botanical Gardens plant sale (10am - 2pm on Saturdays, all through the summer), and planted them in the fresh new beds along with some pretty aquilegias that were already there. At the end of the day yesterday, it was starting to take shape:

I was very pleased with our efforts, and went to bed a happy chap. Happy, that was… until this evening!

I went out into the garden to inspect the troops and give them a water. And what did I find? Trampled and buried plants, leaves and flowers torn off, dug up soil, and cat poo. Clearly the neighbour’s cats didn’t like the new additions as much as me. Cursing under my breath, I cleared up the mess as best I could and gave the plants a water. Which brings me back to the intro to this post…

I’ve constructed a rudimentary laser grid, as seen on all good films where somebody robs a bank and has to dance around some deadly lasers in a skimpy costume - I’m hoping that this will keep the cats off the garden until I find something better; a net, perhaps? If anyone has any good suggestions (that actually work!) of how to keep pesky cats off of a garden, please let me know! They’re a complete nuisance!

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