"Holy Zarquon's Singing Fish" wrote in message
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The approach there is to encourage seed spreading birds
to come in. If you don't have any large trees, the provision of
artificial perches might help. Of course the birds bring weeds in too
which have to be dealt with, potentially for quite a long time (until
they're shaded out).
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Given my privet forests this seems very likely


I reckon there are generations of local birds who have grown fat
feasting on privet berries, removing the privet could be an ecological
disaster for them! (Well almost).

David