Sorry Pete, I haven't come across the term "harlequin". Is it a beetle? Perhaps it's another name for this type of ladybird.
I use pelleted chicken manure too. No smell and it really does a grand job. Mulch with garden compost in the autumn, two handfulls of pelleted...
Can you send a photo? The hard, yellow moss like stuff sounds like a lichen. That's perfectly harmless.
Another friend for the garden. Crickets look like grasshoppers and grasshoppers look like locusts and so people think that they must eat plants....
You can't have too many ladybirds. They'll really get going when the weather warms up.Not sure, Liz. Spraying with water and soap is a lot...
Thanks Pete. I'll see if I can get a colony established somewhere
Hover flies are one of the gardener's very best best friends. RHS advises growing French marigolds and similar plants in your garden to attract...
Greenfly and other aphids are tasty meals for ladybirds and their larvae. Here is a small 14 spot ladybird cleaning up my roses. [img] Notice...
Wow! That really is lovely. Wonderful colour and shape. The leaves look good and healthy too. New one on me but Ill look out for it now
Lovely plant and it looks at home on your allotment. Cherish it as it is quite rare now and I have never seen it. The Dungeness colony is one of...
Excellent photos, Greenwizard
Its the rose-chafer's grubs that are a nuisance. They eat into root vegetables. The adult beetle is a beautiful metallic green and will just...
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Just checked my roses and among the hundreds of buds, very few have aphids or cuckoo spit. Yes the aphids are there but so are the ladybirds...
Fantastic flowers close up and magnificent on a mature tree. The red variety never grow so large as the white. Introduced into Britain in 1616...
Lovely! Gorgeous colour,but almost impossible to tell from a photograph because all photos have a colour bias so the colour will never exactly...
Larvae of the geranium sawfly eat small round holes in the foliage, but the damage is slight and never a problem worth treating. Vine weevil...
Hey Rich - you can always underplant. No need to have bare earth anywhere and roses look much better for some groundcover. See earlier post on...
It looks like G.x magnificum, a hybrid of G. ibericum and G. platypetalum. Or it could be a variety of G.himalayense (Gravetye or Grandiflora)...
Yes. I pack everything in leaving no bare soil so no weeds get a chance. Some geraniums are mound forming and need no support. Others are tall but...
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