Battle of the Birds: Orchid Cage

A couple of weeks ago, Mom came into the house shouting for us.  I thought she might have hurt herself or had gotten horrible news from the neighbors.

It was the birds.  She was sure it was a bulbul who'd done it.  The bird had snapped off a huge bud from the orchid plant she'd been nurturing and looking forward to watching bloom.

My brother, Dennis had made these orchid stands for Mom to raise her orchids several years ago.  Mom says the bulbuls like to bite the buds off, but don't actually eat them.  

I told Dennis his mother was very upset about the orchids and he would need to do something.  Art was busy working on the handrails at the time.

We could see that several of her plants were showing signs of budding so something needed to be done.

Art and I went to Home Depot and bought a big roll of plastic bird netting.

It was not easy to work with netting material that kept tangling but Dennis managed to  figure out a way to keep the birds out but allow Mom to water and fertilize them.

Dennis did just one set of the stands and we'll let that be the nursery.

In a few days these buds should bloom and I imagine we'll have a very happy mother on our hands.  I hope.

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Here it is!