Re: Re: Re: blackberries/gardenias

Well it's going to get sprayed w/ the Neem/kelp cocktail just like the
roses, so it should be ok! I hope. Any suggestions otherwise?


Pam Evans
Kemp, TX
zone 8A
----- Original Message -----
From: james singer
Sent: 3/28/2004 12:13:17 PM
To: gardenchat@hort.net
Subject: Re: [CHAT] Re: blackberries/gardenias

> Pam, I'd worry more about aphids and sooty mold than white flies if it 
> was my gardenia--not that either are destructive, but they sure make 
> the plant look terrible.
> 
> On Sunday, March 28, 2004, at 12:18 PM, "" 
> <gardenqueen@academicplanet.com> wrote:
> 
> > I hope blackberry vines are better behaved up North.  They run wild 
> > here too.
> > Well, I did break my oath to never purchase a non-xeriscape plant 
> > again.
> > Bought a dwarf gardenia today when I went to McDade's for lemon verbena
> > and lava sand.
> >
> > It's in a large pot so I can control the soil pH and will be on the
> > prowl for whiteflies. Found that sweet myrtle too that Jesse was 
> > looking
> > for. Didn't know they got 10' tall. So I made room for it out there
> > along the tree/shrub line. Just about using a shoe horn out there now. 
> > I
> > must be bonkers. Had to dig up a four o'clock tuber the size of a yam.
> > Wow. Monstrous thing. Just starting to drizzle now, so my timing was
> > lucky. Good thing too - really overdid it w/ my back this morning.
> >
> >
> >
> > Pam Evans
> > Kemp, TX
> > zone 8A
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Andrea H
> > Sent: 3/27/2004 9:17:00 PM
> > To: gardenchat@hort.net
> > Subject: Re: [CHAT] Buddleia davidii a noxious weed???
> >
> >> talk about noxious weeds! You're actually going to plant a blackberry 
> >> vine
> >> on purpose? Would you like me to send you some? I spend most of my 
> >> time
> >> battling them to keep them from overrunning everything. I suspect 
> >> they are
> >> actually dewberries but the concept is the same. They are tasty, but 
> >> oh my
> >> aching soul they drive me nuts!
> >>
> >> However, I am sorry to hear about the trellis and the rose. I've been
> >> fortunate not to loose anything to high winds yet, but tornado season 
> >> hasn't
> >> quite arrived either. And then hurricane season starts of course!
> >>
> >>
> >> Andrea H
> >> Beaufort, SC
> >>
> >>
> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "Wendy Swope" <wendyswope@mindspring.com>
> >> To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> >> Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2004 9:47 AM
> >> Subject: RE: [CHAT] Buddleia davidii a noxious weed???
> >>
> >>
> >>> Thanks, Bonnie!  The garden may not be, er, unified, but verdant it
> >> certainly is! <s>
> >>>
> >>> I lost my 10 foot rustic trellis in the front yard to the big 
> >>> windstorm
> >>> last week (was it only last week? we had 50 mph gusts, for those of 
> >>> you
> >>> who aren't in our neck of the woods!), but the "Alberic Barbier" rose
> >>> that was trained to it may still be salvagable. No roots pulled up. 
> >>> I am
> >>> thinking of putting up pea fence and retraining it horizontally into 
> >>> a
> >>> space that has been a grass path between beds, and maybe adding a
> >>> blackberry vine or two to intertwine with it. Another big project! 
> >>> The
> >>> first step will be cutting the rose free of the fallen trellis, 
> >>> followed
> >>> by stripping the sod path and putting down landscape barrier and 
> >>> mulch
> >>> where I'm planning to erect the pea fence.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Did you lose anything to the wind?
> >>>
> >>> Green Hugs,
> >>>
> >>> Wendy
> >>>
> >>> -----Original Message-----
> >>> From: Bonnie & Bill Morgan <>
> >>> Sent: Mar 23, 2004 11:31 PM
> >>> To: gardenchat@hort.net
> >>> Subject: RE: [CHAT] Buddleia davidii a noxious weed???
> >>>
> >>> Wendy, I happen to like your little corner of the neighborhood.  :>D 
> >>>  When
> >> I
> >>> think of verdant, I think of your yard, filled with life.
> >>>
> >>> Blessings,
> >>> Bonnie (SW OH - zone 5)
> >>>
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> Island Jim
> Southwest Florida
> Zone 10
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