… it with spray snow, silk poinsettias, small silver ornaments or bells, whatever strikes your fancy. We trim the greens from the back of the bushes, so they don’t look vandalized all winter. Next spring and summer they fill in quite quickly.
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Posted on August 12th, 2010 by admin
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… On Friday, Mary’s son noticed a whole bunch of strange bugs on her prize wall of red roses. He described it as “The Star Trek” bug. These little bugs were green with red “saddle” like sides and large antennae. They had little spike like things on the …
Posted on August 4th, 2010 by admin
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… and learning how to identify them.
ladybugs are experts at getting rid of aphids that love to attack rose bushes. They also eat fungal spores, mealybugs, and spider mites. It’s possible to lure ladybugs to your yard by planting specific …
Posted on July 31st, 2010 by admin
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… surface.
Rose aphid: This is the commonest insect enemy in the rose garden, and is often referred to as the greenfly. It’s a small, green soft-bodied insect often found in large colonies, particularly on the first lush spring growth …
Posted on July 5th, 2010 by admin
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… time controlling them than trying to make them grow.
Posted on June 28th, 2010 by admin
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… ‘t want someone cutting of your limbs, so it seems a little scary to snip away at your favorite shrub.
In truth, rose bushes are almost impossible to kill by pruning, underwatering, or underfeeding. The true killers of roses are bugs and …
Posted on June 20th, 2010 by admin
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… , locusts, cut worms, chinch bugs and other creepy crawlers. Because of this they are sometimes called the “potato bug bird”.
The Rose Breasted Grosbeak is of the finch species. The male has a black head, back, bright red breast and …
Posted on June 16th, 2010 by admin
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… year I try to pretend they wont turn up, that this year they will have moved on to another garden. I look away as my lovingly pruned rose bushes start to shoot and grow in the yellow sun, I am afraid to look too close. Sure enough, there are aphids …
Posted on June 10th, 2010 by admin
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… work, and then go hide. That makes them much more difficult to deal with.
Rose slugs do great damage to the rose bushes. They eat out the body of the leaves, so that just the veining is left. They are soft-bodied, green above and yellow …
Posted on May 25th, 2010 by admin
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… . I still remember seeing those pretty red, pink and yellow roses, and white and purple colored snapdragons. She had a fragrant lilac bush right near the gate. When we had the back windows or the back door open in the springtime the scent of lilacs …
Posted on May 25th, 2010 by admin
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