Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening: Strange place for a chrysalis, 1 by kipper2

kipper2 wrote:
One thing that I have heard of to keep cats out of the flower beds is to lay a wire mesh ala chicken wire on the ground. For some reason cats hate the feel of the wire mesh on their pads and will stay clear.

So far the only places that my cats like to lay is where nothing is growing or inbetween plants. How nice of them. Oops, there was one time that Smokey brought a field mouse into the yard to play with and the little bugger got loose and ran under one of my salvias. Weeellllll, after chasing it around the bush I ended up cutting back 4 to 5 stalks. Not a problem for me since she had a good time and that's how nature works. More stuff for the compost.

Here's a shot of the Huntress