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…
Category: Snails, Deer and other Pests
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…
“I think I’d like to ask the audience.”
Some of you may watch “Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?” and if you do, you know the lifelines. I could use “Phone a friend” but with this great audience of nearly 500 people out there, I think it’s the…
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
spoilers of daffodil blooms
Snails and slugs definitely eat daffodil blooms but here in Tennessee I am beginning to have an epidemic of earwhigs coming out after 11 o’clock to ruin a lot of fresh blooms. There was a query for a safe way…