First answer, "I don't know."

Second answer: "I've used the same "oilicide" for aphids on several
ornamentals."

Third answer: The reason I love roses is that, for me at least, they thrive
on neglect.
Chick has plants she has to nurture like a toddler. She has potted plants
requiring
all kinds of care... treatment for this, treatment for that, put in the sun,
take out of
the sun, bring in if the temperature is going below forty, bring in if the
temperature
is going below thirty, feed this at one time, water once a day, water only
once a
week... etc., etc., etc.

My favorite plants are two rose bushes in a bed just out of sight beyond the
low
brick wall along the side of the carport. Out of sight, out of mind. Good
place to
put the pine needles.

For decades those two bushes have just sat there, minding their own business
and
asking nothing from anybody. They don't bloom a lot, but from some reason
in
the early spring and in the fall, they make one bloom each that is at least
twice the
size of all the other blooms. Without having been noticed, they will have
shot up
one or two longer than all the rest stems, and at the end will be a HUGE
bloom,
the sight of which has caused strangers to stop their motor vehicles and
come up
to ask us what kind of roses those are.

Beats the heck outa' me. They were there when we bought the house,
thirty-five
years ago.

"What do you feed them?" strangers ask.

"Pine straw."

Oh, yes. And, also, "The grinds from the coffee maker."


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"John" wrote in message
...
Hello group..
Got four hybrid roses which I planted about six weeks ago. Three of the
four are growing great and the Snowfire just opened it's first bud. I was
out there admiring it yesterday and noticed something white on the leaves
and got down for a closer look and discovered the white areas were fuzzy
like bread mold only white..I also noticed on the one not doing well there
were a bunch of very tiny lime green bugs..Aphids?
Anyone have a good treatment for these? I am sure I will have to get
something seperate for the two problems but don't want to run out and get
the wrong thing...

Thanks so much!!!
John