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I am looking to put a garden mirror along the back wall of my garden to give the look of more space, as its a small garden and want it to look better. I found this website selling garden mirrors: Garden Mirrors But has anyone had any experience installing these type of mirrors or cleaning them? I'm sure it will look ok once put in but what about long term? I don't want my garden to look like someone is fly-tipping mirrors in there! :-) |
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Chris Hogg wrote:
On Thu, 23 Sep 2010 10:13:55 +0000, Grumpy-Grower wrote: Hi there I am looking to put a garden mirror along the back wall of my garden to give the look of more space, as its a small garden and want it to look better. I found this website selling garden mirrors: 'Garden Mirrors' (http://tinyurl.com/3akmkqp) But has anyone had any experience installing these type of mirrors or cleaning them? I'm sure it will look ok once put in but what about long term? I don't want my garden to look like someone is fly-tipping mirrors in there! :-) AIUI, mirrors in the garden fool birds into thinking there's open space there and they fly into them at high speed. Be prepared to collect many dead birds with broken necks. I think it must depend on the precise situation. When I moved here two years ago there were mirrors neatly installed on a four-foot-high retaining wall facing the house at a distance of about fifteen feet. I did have some misgivings, but decided to leave them for a while to see what happened, as I didn't think birds would interpret what they saw as a way out: and there have, indeed, been no casualties at all. -- Mike. |
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"Chris Hogg" wrote in message ... On Thu, 23 Sep 2010 10:13:55 +0000, Grumpy-Grower wrote: AIUI, mirrors in the garden fool birds into thinking there's open space there and they fly into them at high speed. Be prepared to collect many dead birds with broken necks. Some time ago when working, we put bird feeders outside our office window - about 20ft away. We couldn't understand that often in late afternoon, we would get small birds flying into the window. We evetually relised that the sunset was reflected in the window and the birds woud fly towards the relection. We saved a few stunned birds and moved the feeder to a safer place. Bill |
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Wow thanks guys, never even thought of the bird problem!
But I was actually thinking of having the mirror low down and long rather than upright. There is a wall at the bottom of my garden so I was going to have a 2" x 6" mirror run along the back of the plants so it would reflect the plants and the garden. Not sure birds would see it with it being so low. I'll try and post a picture to better explain. Thanks |
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