I use upturned hanging baskets, but it's not very pretty!

Its those sparrows, maybe the petals are sweet, they often eat the beetroot leaves as well.

Yep, caught a hungry flock of sparrows devouring all my prims the other day.

A couple of years ago, they stripped my dads wisteria of around 200 flowers....they ate the lot in no time at all.

I know they can be a nuisance, but here in my part of London, I miss sparrows - not seen or heard any since I was a child in South London.

I'll swap our sparrows for your ringnecks Bamboo lol.

Trouble with sparrows (these are dunnocks as opposed to hedge sparrows) is they never venture far from where they were born so they can turn into quite a bit colony in a few years

The rabbits ate mine ?

the second flush of flowers are fine though.

Oh, we've got plenty of Dunnocks - its proper sparrows we never see. And you can have the ring necks, Badfish - lovely to look at, but what a racket they do make, all that raucous croaking and screeching...

At least rabbits are quiet ?

Thank you everyone.
I've even put fruit and bread out on their own little tray.
I'll try the little windmills, I've been told they might work.
I just hope they don't do the same thing to my fushias when they flower ?.

My Mum used to string lengths of black cotton criss crossed over plants that sparrow like - tie it onto twigs stuck in the ground and it doesn't show much.

Never had any probs with fuchsias.

They are enjoying mine as well but only in the border, I have lots growing nearer to the house and also further down the garden and near the fishpond, they are being left alone and are looking lovely, I don't understand why though, they also pull one of my saxifragas out near them but not the rest, it happens every year......