Category: Snails, Deer and other Pests

Deer in Leander Texas

This is in central Texas over New Years weekend. Notice that the deer have eaten all the leaves and limbs off the the trees in this yard that they can reach while standing on their back legs. There were at…

Oh, Deer…

Nancy Goodwin, of Montrose Gardens, says the only way she can grow hostas is to ring them with hellebores. Sort of drastic for daffodil borders–you’d get stuck as you pick them. But it is an idea. I am watching my…

Quiz Question

Each week the UK magazine Country Life includes a small general knowledge quiz. This week’s article had the question “What do daffodils, bamboo, rhododendrons and thyme have in common” The answer quoted later in the magazine was “They are all…

Mealy bugs

Better a dead bug, any time! I’m STILL finding mealybugs down in the depths of my tazettas – they should at least be staggering drunk by now from all the alcohol I’ve sprayed on those plants! Ethel Smith in MN