Foxes digging up your lawn? Add these pungent and spiky plants to your garden borders

What plants can we use to keep foxes from rooting around and making a mess of our flowerbeds and borders?

Foxes forage and root around for tasty grubs and other morsels in rich soils, and sometimes not in the best places, such as flowerbeds and lawns. Credit: PixabayFoxes are opportunistic feeders and will not hesitate to investigate a potential meal, which, unfortu

nately for passionate gardeners, might mean digging up your flower beds to harvest grubs and worms or investigating the smell of natural, organic fertilisers composed of bone and/or fish meal. What natural methods might be employed to prevent such behaviour and preserve our carefully curated gardens? Read on to find out more. Deterring with smellThe curry plant (genus and species name: Helichrysum italicum), named for its dis

tinct smell, reminis

cent of curry powder or curry leaves, grows in the sun-drenched climes of the Mediterranean. Naturally, the plant thrives in full sun and fast-draining soil of poor to moderate fertility. This h

ighly drought-tolerant plant is not only a considerate choice given the intense heat and longer periods of drought we have been experiencing in the UK but also serves to deter foxes with its pungent scent. Some have also described the scent as having lemon/floral notes (attributed to the aromatic compound

nerol) and rose-like tones (attributed to another aromatic compound, neryl acetate). The curry plant is also known as immortelle (French, derived from immortel, meaning everlasting). We know sage, rosemary, and lavender (Lavandula augustifolia) for their strong scents (again produced

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