On the Gardeners Guy show, locally, he recommended using rose stems (thorns and all) cut to 4 or 5 inches long in your flower beds to keep the cats out. I can understand how that would work, but I'm hoping planting a whole bunch of roses will do the same thing :) Alan Chandler, Arizona Sunset Zone: 13 http://members.home.net/gizmoaz/~gizmoaz.htm Over 145 Rose Bushes Planted! 75 Different varieties! Never a dull moment!! penny x stamm wrote: > Kari, several years ago at someone's suggestion, I strewed endless > quantities of orange peel along the corridor between my plantings and > the stone wall. [I'm a real orange lover, thank goodness!) At the end > of the summer, those peelings lay undisturbed but definitely not very > attractive, so I raked them up. > > That devilish rogue cat which had been plaguing me is still around ...... > maybe I should repeat the procedure...? > > Penny, NY > > ________________________________________________________________ > GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! > Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! > Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: > http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.