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The bird netting sounds like an easy thing to try.  Hope it works.
Laney

TypeF (Jackie Floyd) wrote:
> > I also suggest that like Barbra said, you might also check into local Ag
> > Commissioners .....
>
> I just got off the phone with the agricultural department and the 
> gentleman I spoke with said there's really nothing I can do. There is no 
> law against planting oleanders in California. Their secret wish at his 
> office was that the Glassy-Winged Sharp Shooter would infest all the 
> oleanders and they would die. But instead they took out the grapes. It 
> seems there aren't that many things susceptible to the GWSS. Wouldn't 
> you know ....
>
> However, he had actually lost a foal to oleander poisoning. The mare ate 
> some that blew into the corral from way out in the front yard in a 
> windstorm, got sick, the foal drank the tainted milk and died. He had a 
> toxidity test done on the mare and an autopsy done on the foal and it 
> was confirmed. So there is a gray area. He did give me a good idea ... 
> bird netting on my side of the oleander bushes. It couldn't be seen by 
> my neighbor so shouldn't bother him, but would keep a lid on the leaves 
> better.
>
> Maybe I can finally convince my husband we need to move. I've been 
> trying for several years, but his father was born on this property so 
> he's very sentimental about it. And his father and mother still live 
> here at age 89 and 87 so he is very reluctant to leave.
>
> I can already tell you that the neighbor will not agree to pulling out 
> his oleanders.
>
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