what unwanted things regularly get into your garden?

[DaringAquaViewer]

can be anything from cats to litter

for me cats an petals from the house at the bac tree

Cats from one neighbour and sodding brambles from the other!

Bindweed, 25 year battle, I'm not winning

We have pigeons, a fox and a couple of cats.

We also have a hedgehog visit occasionally but I like that.

Next doors bl00dy cats! And before the 'oh we love cats' brigade come at me, how is it fair MY garden is their bathroom??? Infuriating how other people's choices impact neighbours.

Rats - maybe not regularly but at least twice I have known about them and I can not bear them and really struggle.

Also cats - we have lovely bluetits that come and nest in our apple tree and the cats sit and stare at them for ages.

Pheasants, horses, rats, deer and sheep. The joys of rural life!

Bindweed mostly. We've had rats in the past but not recently, and cats aren't too much of an issue - a good supersoaking makes them decide it's not worth bothering.

I'm more than happy to have pigeons (wood pigeons and collared doves) and pheasants. The only birds I wouldn't want in excess are corvids and starlings but don't mind one or two of them.

Sheep , they eat my plants and then shit everywhere
Then stare at me in a confrontational way ( until I run at them , growling )

This chap is very beautiful, but here he is about to dig up our herb garden to retrieve a very smelly kill he’d hidden. Please note he’s about three foot from the house.

Next door’s bindweed, ground elder, wood avens, nettles, brambles…. One neighbour got a new girlfriend who gardens so that solved one side, but the other good gardener moved out and the newbies are clearly of the “no mow 2024” gang. Sigh.

And the cat that keeps trying to get in the house, that our cats fight off at 3am.

(Apologies to neighbours with an inch of bare earth - I think we export our cats to them).

Sycamore seedlings. Hundreds of the buggers every spring.

Fox poo. Can't complain though, I put food out

Rabbits.

Bloody rats from next door's shared house where they're living under the decking

Deer. They eat our lovely expensive plants. We have deer fencing but they have started trotting up our drive which had low gates they can jump. We are now getting 6 ft gates installed. No deery fuckers are getting in now!

Rats from the field behind the house, bindweed, docks, thistles and teasels. I also have pheasant visitors but I don't mind them.

Rabbits, deer, moles, foxes. Crows. Hundreds at times. It can be like a scene from The Birds.

Ground elder and nettles from one side. Brambles and everything and anything else from the other.

Horsetail plants. Jurassic beasts that can’t be killed. And giant pools of rainwater that take forever to drain away due to our v shallow water table and clay-y soil.

Fine with all the cats, pigeons, birds, foxes, hedgehogs, and the occasional badger out the back.

Cats. Brambles and nettles and ivy from neighbours garden. All manner of weeds from the fields behind.

I've no idea where our cat poos, sorry to the neighbours.

Neighbour has a tall shrub whose name I can't just remember, but it spreads through the fence into our front garden and I've had to put in bamboo barrier to stop it spreading into my bed. It has lovely pink fluffy flowers for the bees and in the summer blocks the view of our dog and his dogs. So I put up with it. But I sigh a bit as I cut it back on our side every year.

If I'd known I wouldn't have planted that bit our side and would have just let it take over.

Twitch grass and brambles. Managed to get most of it out over the years but a last patch has me beat. I'm moving house so now I don't care anymore.

The odd rat and some field mice, but the foxes soon sort them out so I'm not too worried. The multiple local cats just watch them 🙄

Pigeons. Both City and Wood. My fault as I like feeding the other birds.

Stray cats. We have multiple feline visitors so can tell which ones are the hungry strays. We are now watching a fourth one in five years trying to figure out a way to catch for rehoming. Apparently our area is well known for people leaving their pets behind. Bastards.

Animal poo. Fox, hedgehog and pigeon mainly. The cats, unless stray, don't loiter so I think we are their version of a motorway 😂

Other wildlife are very welcome and I'm going to miss them. I'll miss my "weeds" in the lawn too. Still haven't figured out what they all are.

So much bindweed.

Also next door's cat keeps coming over and fighting my cat in our garden.

Cats are the worst. Then the pigeons - who have attacked our cherry tree, stripping all the leaves.

And the neighbour's ivy and other wall-climbing plants that have crawled across our house and are too high for me to trim back.

I don't like the Magpies. They have already attacked and killed a robin who had nested, to get his eggs. We have so many here, and crows, and jackdaws, sorry but they are evil bastards. Eat waaayyyy more birds than any cat I have ever owned.