I have red hot pokers, a fig, a persimmon and a plum for your geranium sanguineum, red flowered heuchera, golden tiara hosta and scilla. Let me know if we can trade.

hey cat... puma.. child... ??? .. deer???? yes.. something superficially scratched the bark nothing to do about it ... you can only wait and see if anything further develops ... no .. no paint or goo or anything like that .... surely no fert if its growing so welll ... any of the diseases you mention.. could take upwards of a decade to kill a tree .. .things just dont work that fast with trees ... so .. bottom line.. ignore it .. though if it continues.. perhaps we could prevent further damge.. just keep an eye on it for a few weeks... if you notice further damge... perhaps we can come up with some prevention ideas ... ken ps: probably not deer.. as they wouldnt work that hard to get under the canopy to get to the trunk .. but i cant see the whole tree ...

Eep! That mite damage sounds like the little red squiggles I noticed on my red Hippeastrum just after I divided it from its daughter. There were some bumps on the edge of some leaves that I caught my hands on while I divided. Not as sawtoothy as Hans pic, yet. Is orthanex also a systemic for roses? I think there may be a bottle of the granular in the house, if it is. Were you using a liquid form and would the granular work? If none of those what type of sulfur should I look for at the pharmacy? (Chemical formulas won't scare me if they're under 15 characters long.) I assume I'll have to treat all three of my plants (the red & daughter and my appleblossom) as they've all been sitting together.

I can't recall ever seeing them at Lowe's or any other nursery of that type. I have seen them offered at various native plant mail-order nurseries, like Almost Eden. But beware! If you don't want a plant that eventually spreads, don't plant turk's cap! I just pull it up wherever it comes up that I don't want it. It's so popular with hummers and certain butterflies, it's worth it to me. Also, there is a type of turk's cap that has large flowers that hang downward, This type isn't as cold hardy as the smaller flowering type, with the upward facing flowers. I had the big flowering type years ago, and it didn't come back in spring. The small flowering type dies back on top after the first freeze, even if it's a light one, but it always comes back strong in spring. Almost Eden sells several varieties of turk's cap, including the cold tender, big flowering type and some white and pink flowering ones. They're out of their regular M. drummondii, the species, but they have two cultivars. One is called 'big spreader' or something like that, and I figure nobody needs one that spreads more than usual. The one in the link is called 'Big Mamma' but it's still the small flowering type. Sherry Here is a link that might be useful: Turk's Cap at Almost Eden