YMC wrote:
"Trish Brown" wrote in message
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Great! Thanks, David! Sounds as though I might be needing drippers and/or
very short risers then. Part of my garden will be devoted to roses and I'm
historical about getting the foliage too wet and causing awful fungus to
take hold. Another part will be for shorter annuals and


You could try laying bluestone around the roses - the roses' roots will be
attracted to the dark moist underneath the rocks.

Laying on a layer of thick mulch will also help.

I haven't been watering my garden much this year - and the roses look top
notch - no blackspot.


Yes, I've got my mulch rotting busily away in a corner, waiting for The
Bed to be ready! LOL!

Now I have another question. What is the creature that munches circular
holes in the leaves of apple trees? I've looked and looked, even used a
magnifying glass, but I'm blowed if I can find a single animal on the
leaves.

The tree is one my son germinated from seed and lives in a large pot,
where it's been quite happy these ten years or so. Suddenly, its leaves
look more like holly than apple! It looks exactly like caterpillar
damage, but where could the caterpillars be hiding?

(NB. There are about twenty pet mice buried in the pot, but somehow I
don't think they're rising from the dead at night and chewing the apple
leaves... it has to be something else!)

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Trish Brown {|:-}

Newcastle, NSW, Australia