Re: [aroid-l] elephant fences was: Woodchuck problem

Hi All,
A cheaper alternative would be twenty or thirty dollars worth of rubber mice
(approx. a dollar each as a cats toy. They are available in most pet stores)
sprinkled amongst the perennial garden should do the trick.   ..everyone
knows pachyderms fear mice...hehe

Enid

Natural Selections Exotics
1401 SW 1 st Ave
Ft Lauderdale, FL 33315
www.NSExotics.com
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From: "Peter Boyce" <peterboyce@myjaring.net>
To: <aroid-l@lists.ncsu.edu>
Sent: Monday, July 26, 2004 5:22 PM
Subject: Re: [aroid-l] elephant fences was: Woodchuck problem


> Hi Marge
>
> Steel 15 x 20 cm, 6 m long I-beams (known as RSJ's in the UK) buried and
> concreted 3 meters into the ground at 1 meter intevals and then disguised
by
> coating them in a concrete-soil mixture that very quickly becomes moss-
and
> lichen covered.
>
> Pete
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Marge Talt" <mtalt@hort.net>
> To: <aroid-l@lists.ncsu.edu>
> Sent: Monday, July 26, 2004 3:52 PM
> Subject: Re: [aroid-l] elephant fences was: Woodchuck problem
>
>
> > Realize this is not aroid related, but am very curious about what one
> > would use to make a fence that would stop a determined elephant.
> >
> > Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
> > mtalt@hort.net
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> > From: Peter Boyce <peterboyce@myjaring.net>
> > At the ultimate extreme, at least two national parks in Thailand have
> > had to go to the astronomical expense of installing anti-elephant
> > fences to protect their nursery plantations from roaming herbs
> > (elephant populations in Thailand ore increasing at teh same time the
> > forests are shrinking - a bad combination).
> >
> > Mercifully elephants aren't known to burrow and haven't yet figured
> > that they could climb over the barrier if they had a step ladder....
> >
> >
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