On Feb 14, 11:49*pm, Sacha wrote:
On 14/2/09 16:20, in article
, "Judith







in France" wrote:
On Feb 14, 3:12*pm, Sacha wrote:
On 14/2/09 15:00, in article
, "Judith

in France" wrote:
On Feb 11, 8:04*am, Sacha wrote:
I had a very kind email about our web site this morning from a 'neighbour'
in Ashburton, NZ! *She sent me a link to a fantastic garden there which
unhappily, we didn't know about at the time. *It may be a bit of
inspirational cheer for urglers waiting for their own gardens to wake
up:http://www.trotts.co.nz/

--
Sachahttp://www.hillhousenursery.com
South Devon
Perennials & shrubs online

How lovely and so very English!

Judith

Some of the gardens we saw were sub-tropical in the North Island but became
more English in the cooler South Island. *I envied them their fabulous
roses, which were aphid and disease free in every case bar one. *And they
told us this is the first season they've had aphids. * I was pale green!
--
Sachahttp://www.hillhousenursery.com
South Devon
Perennials & shrubs online

I would be also aphids are the bane of my life. *I am trying very hard
to not use sprays but it is almost impossible not to at times.

Judith

We don't grow a lot of them but where we do have aphids I hang bird feeders.
They find the feeders and the aphids.
--
Sachahttp://www.hillhousenursery.com
South Devon
Perennials & shrubs online

That's a neat trick, I will remember that. I find that my Dahlias get
aphids, badly, any tips?

Judith

On 15/2/09 10:40, in article
, "Judith in
France" wrote:

On Feb 14, 11:52*pm, Sacha wrote:
On 14/2/09 16:49, in article ,



" wrote:
In article
,
Judith in France wrote:
On Feb 14, 3:12=A0pm, Sacha wrote:
On 14/2/09 15:00, in article
Some of the gardens we saw were sub-tropical in the North Island but beca=
me
more English in the cooler South Island. =A0I envied them their fabulous
roses, which were aphid and disease free in every case bar one. =A0And th=
ey
told us this is the first season they've had aphids. =A0 I was pale green=
!

I would be also aphids are the bane of my life. *I am trying very hard
to not use sprays but it is almost impossible not to at times.

Let's see what happens after the first winter in a decade.

Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

We had a couple of mozzies in the house after the first few frosty nights
and I started wondering just what it takes to be shot of them. *Touching
wood as I write this, we haven't seen one for quite a few days, even though
it's gone up to around 6 or 7c and been sunny.
--
Sachahttp://www.hillhousenursery.com
South Devon
Perennials & shrubs online

We too got a few in including a bluebottle, they came on the logs.

Judith

I don't think that's the case with the ones I saw. They were hovering by
one of the back doors and we don't have logs there or bring them in that
way. I think they must somehow have been hiding somewhere sheltered and
survived the frost.
--
Sacha
http://www.hillhousenursery.com
South Devon
Perennials & shrubs online

On 15/2/09 10:42, in article
, "Judith in
France" wrote:

On Feb 14, 11:49*pm, Sacha wrote:
On 14/2/09 16:20, in article
, "Judith







in France" wrote:
On Feb 14, 3:12*pm, Sacha wrote:
On 14/2/09 15:00, in article
, "Judith

in France" wrote:
On Feb 11, 8:04*am, Sacha wrote:
I had a very kind email about our web site this morning from a
'neighbour'
in Ashburton, NZ! *She sent me a link to a fantastic garden there which
unhappily, we didn't know about at the time. *It may be a bit of
inspirational cheer for urglers waiting for their own gardens to wake
up:http://www.trotts.co.nz/

--
Sachahttp://www.hillhousenursery.com
South Devon
Perennials & shrubs online

How lovely and so very English!

Judith

Some of the gardens we saw were sub-tropical in the North Island but became
more English in the cooler South Island. *I envied them their fabulous
roses, which were aphid and disease free in every case bar one. *And they
told us this is the first season they've had aphids. * I was pale green!
--
Sachahttp://www.hillhousenursery.com
South Devon
Perennials & shrubs online

I would be also aphids are the bane of my life. *I am trying very hard
to not use sprays but it is almost impossible not to at times.

Judith

We don't grow a lot of them but where we do have aphids I hang bird feeders.
They find the feeders and the aphids.
--
Sachahttp://www.hillhousenursery.com
South Devon
Perennials & shrubs online

That's a neat trick, I will remember that. I find that my Dahlias get
aphids, badly, any tips?

Judith

Not from me, other than the above. David Hill should know.
--
Sacha
http://www.hillhousenursery.com
South Devon
Perennials & shrubs online

On Sat, 14 Feb 2009 13:29:09 +0000, Sacha
wrote:

On 14/2/09 13:14, in article ,
"Martin" wrote:

On Sat, 14 Feb 2009 12:35:52 +0000, Sacha wrote:

On 14/2/09 09:10, in article , "Roy
snip

Regarding Ashburton, when we passed through the town we noticed that
someone had added an 'H' to the front of the name on the road sign!

Roy.

!!

Not at all up to defaced Cuck and our local Puck restaurant standards.

The local Ing Bank car park sign is frequently defaced from P-ING.
A Leiden train station name has been modified from Lammenschans to Lammen Hans
(
Lame Hans)

We must have a better class of vandal round here. The best I've seen in
Torquay is Cary Park to Scary Park. ;-)

Watts Close just down the road has an added "T" prefix.



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"Judith in France" wrote in message
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On Feb 14, 3:12 pm, Sacha wrote:
On 14/2/09 15:00, in article
, "Judith
Some of the gardens we saw were sub-tropical in the North Island but
became
more English in the cooler South Island. I envied them their fabulous
roses, which were aphid and disease free in every case bar one. And they
told us this is the first season they've had aphids. I was pale green!
--
Sachahttp://www.hillhousenursery.com
South Devon
Perennials & shrubs online

I would be also aphids are the bane of my life. I am trying very hard
to not use sprays but it is almost impossible not to at times.

Judith

Taken from the "old wives LORE for Gardeners" which I have just
acquired......


"A single clove of garlic planted beside each rose is guaranteed absolutely
to keep greenfly from the plant. The roots will take up from the soil a
substance from the garlic inimical to greenfly, and if in early spring a few
hatch out from eggs of parents careless of their offspring's welfare, they
will neither lay nor survive themselves. Whatever it is that the rose takes
up from the garlic does not affect its own scent, and so long as the garlic
is not allowed to flower, there will be no odour of garlic in the garden.
Try it for one year with one group of roses in one bed protected only by
garlic, spraying all the others in the garden as much as you need, and you
will never waste money or time again. All members of the onion family
including chives are partially effective, but garlic is the only completely
efficient answer. In very dry weather water the garlic so that the
excretions from its roots will be sure to be taken up by the thirsty rose"


I think I may try that! any other problems, just ask me and my book!