Thank you for the spot!!

You're welcome xx When I did the topiary trails, I always used only one pot per colour and I wrote down the order of the critters, so that I could plan ahead.
FFU has a pretty good guide for the topiaries:
https://www.freedomfairies.com/fairyland-guide/topiary-trails-guide

Tyvm for spotting in mine x

Good morning xx
since your toipary is stage 8 of 9 and the bush is tall it can be either a unicorn, a meerkat, a winged uni or an ostrich. It can't be a black unicorn, that one will definitely be the last stage of this trail. I don't know which of the critters you've already had, so I can't give a closer guess, sorry. I hope this helps you anyway xx

Hoorah, tyvm for spotting my top meerkat!  x

You have to do five yellow trails...so once you know the line up...it will be the same each time. So write it down.
Good luck...there are many who will help you along the way. Don't be shy and ask for help at the forums.

There are 7 trails/levels/colors of topiaries consisted of different number of stages (from 3,6,9,12,15,18 and 21 for each color respectively) and different number of animals where every new level contains all animals from the previous trail plus new 3:
-Red: Skunk, Grey squirrel, Classic unicorn (total 3 stages)
-Orange: All animals from red trail plus: Meerkat, Tortoise, Winged unicorn (total 6 stages)
-Yellow: All animals from orange trail plus: Ostrich,Hedgehog, Black unicorn (total 9 stages)
-Green: All animals from yellow trail plus:Giraffe,Woodpecker,White unicorn (total 12 stages)
-Blue: All animals from green trail plus:Badger, Elephant,Baby unicorn (total 15 stages)
-Indigo: All animals from blue trail plus: Crane,Zebra,Golden unicorn (total 18 stages)
-Violet: All animals from indigo trail plus:Kangaroo,Leopard,Rainbow unicorn (total 21 stages)

The rainbow rocks which you get from completing the rainbow of fish challenge help with the unicorns as you plant the required mushroom and it goes instantly to ready for harvest which increases the likelihood of  the proper unicorn showing. But many do without....just using the fully grown mushroom that is one above the mushroom that is ready for harvest for the mushroom required for that unicorn. Hope that makes sense.
So for the black unicorn you can use the enchanted white mushroom at fully grown.

This might help.

Also you can “predict” what animal is coming if you look carefully at the bushes and compare them with your notes excluding the animals you already had. There are two types of bushes: Tall and Round bushes.
Animals that come from tall bush are: ALL UNICORNS, meerkat, ostrich, giraffe, badger, zebra, crane, kangaroo
Animals that come from round bush are: grey squirrel, skunk, tortoise, hedgehog, woodpecker, elephant and leopard
The last critter on the yellow trail pot will be the black unicorn.

Thanks for your help Rhiannon xox