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RE: Roses/aphids/botrytis

I have ALL my roses in mixed beds, and they
are very healthy.  With peonies and
honeysuckle.  My honeysuckle suffers terribly
every year from aphids (I keep threatening to
tear it out), right near a rose, but no problems
*ever* with that rose.  The few others that get
aphids I leave to the lady bugs, in extreme cases
shoot them off with water.  I have 70 roses in a
city lot, so it should technically be a "field day"
for disease.  A few get powdery mildew (ones
that are notorious for it) and the rest are
usually great.  Good dirt is the key, its survivial
of the fittest in the plant world, and believe it
or not, it is proven the pests will always go for
the "weak" plant not the healthy one.

>>> Jeaa1224 <Jeaa1224@aol.com> 05/26/98
11:42am >>>
Who makes up these "subjects"? Mixed up
gardeners like mixed up borders! And,
whoever you are, I am concerned about the
botrytis on the lonicera perhaps in-
fecting my roses, etc.

Joanie
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