Tropicals & Tender Perennials: My Back Yard Adventures with Brugmansias 2010, 1 by joeswife

joeswife wrote:
Betty Marshall is Y'ing, I am so happy, I didn't get a Y out of last year.. Frosty has 9 blooms on him. I have inspected Maya and Peachs and Cream and have not found any more worms on them since I have been picking them off thank goodness. I treated them to a drink of Charley Poo tea since they were such good girls. Damien from JT is Y'ying as well. I blew my back again while moving around the big pots on the patio and re-arranging them, so I started the excersizes back up again, walking around and hanging from the waist down while looking for and pulling weeds. Two Naproxins in me now, so have to really think positive. Mind over Matter. While cutting away the sweet autumn clematis that was eating the mimosa tree out front and to the south of the neighbors and my fence corner, I found these horrible alien looking bugs That I HAve Never Seen in My Life. They were sucking the blood out of that poor vine, leaving the voracious honey suckle in there alone. I hobbled back into the house and came back out armed with sevin dust and yard bug spray. Starting at my garden I dusted and sprayed away from them. I ended up cutting all that stuff off and putting it deep into the dumpster. this hedge is only 20 feet or so away from my back Yard brug and tropical Garden. it is 5 feet away from my native prenniel garden and 6 feet away from my Cattalonia brug. I armed that area and feel like since I asked Dh to mow, maybe that will help. He mowed as much of the honeysuckle and sweet autumn as possible at the bottom of the fence line as I chopped away at the top/maybe my japanese morning glorys will kick butt now.
Those bugs were weird. they looked like little moving triangle dimension shaped black specks that crawled and flew. UGH!

Frosty at the north fence in ground full sun. KaNSAS, usa