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Zuzu
Sebastopol, CA
(Zone 9a)
July 16, 2008
3:10 AM Post #5266997
| Okay, I have some free time again, and I'm still working on all of these May photos. There will be no June photos, and I might get around to posting the July photos sometime in November. June was an absolute bust -- two heat waves and a veritable plague of bugs of all types. The bugs were there in May too, so some of the roses in these photos have deplorable foliage, but it can't be helped. I avoided spraying because I didn't want to hurt the ladybugs and other beneficial insects. I also had the mistaken notion that the bugs would go away by July. Nope. They're still here, especially those awful rose slugs. I've also discovered scale on about a dozen of my roses. In the past, I only had scale on the Ribes plants in my garden, but now the roses are getting it too.
Watch out, ladybugs: Next year I'm bringing out the big guns and spraying early and often.
This is the first bud on Fascination, a Warriner hybrid tea I'd been hunting for a long time and finally found at Hortico.
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