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be due to pink aphids which I've been dealing with, but someone else thinks this could be red spider mite? Thanks again, Louise BP Yesterday I planted a sorbus aucuparia and a eucalypus gunni next to each other infront of our fence to use as a screen. I

climbing rose. My feet were underneath a clump of day lilies. I felt the stabing pain, stepped back onto the path and rubbed my foot and could see two puncture marks side by side about a centimetre apart. I wasn;t sure if a spider had bitten me but a friend

, especially trailing varieties or types of Begonia semperflorens. Others to consider include nepeta, helichrysum, scaevola (fan flower), and others.Also consider hardy perennials like heuchera and ferns.Many houseplants would also be suitable, including spider

days as this also helps keep the temperature down and deters red spider mite which can be a problem in hot dry conditions.I have invested in a Max/Min thermometer which tells me the lowest and highest temperature in the greenhouse. As Geoff says

. Variegated Azalea is great as is variegated Phormiums in all colours. Fatsia spiders web is different but the variegata variety can look sick. Variegated Palms looks ill to me - I prefer them totally green. My local gc is selling variegated lavenders

these spiders yesterday  I am worried about this beautiful Bee - it was on the same flower for a very long time yesterday I haven't been down to check yet if it is still there today All your pictures steephill are just lovely. Here are my baby sparrows being

in pest control if anyone can. May try that myself,I have a rhubarb patch,does anyone know if boiling up the leaves will be effective,on red spider mites??? I have been told about this in the Pays de la Loire in France. I've tried it and it successfully

food restaurant! I was afraid to use slug pellets, as I have 4 dogs who regularly play in the polytunnels, and several wild birds, pecking about for my huge spiders. Seemingly from nowhere I now have quite a large population of the most enormous frogs

sizes spiders inside (I simply adore them, great architects!)-mice and rats have definetly left the home after I bought a home cinema with sensoround sound a couple of years ago...(not a joke, there were plenty of them and they suddenly vanished; I

. I did have a spider on one but it didnt seem to be any bother however, over the weekend that strawberry went rotten. Ive had a few small green ones fall off aswell, I'm not sure what I should do the birds dont seem too interested but I cant be sure