Hi David
The fencing material is brushwood fencing and comes in rolls with 3 heights. We are farmers, so you could say it is to keep the sheep and cattle out, but I use it where I can to filter the wind. It doesn’t last terribly long but is relatively inexpensive and easy to handle. The sheep like to nibble at it from the other side, hastening its demise! The worst experience with stray farm animals I’ve had is a mob of cattle, including the very heavy bull, dancing around a newly down bed of my very best daffs. The bull sunk up to his knees and boy, did we have to dig down a long way when the bulbs were next lifted! But apart from our own truant animals we are really lucky with a lack of feral animals that damage the daffs. The odd pukeko has been known to pop up and peck at the odd bulb. Guess we’re lucky eh!
This fencing is good because it filters rather than blocks which causes more damage with eddying. We are in an area of very strong westerly winds but over the last two weeks nothing short of digging them up and bringing them into the house would have reduced the weather damage. I despair for next year’s flowering as so much of the foliage is shattered and broken off.
Cheers
Noeline McL
NZ