Daisydawnny, hope you are feeling much better now! For katbird, terrene, mnwsgal and lois - I am so sorry for your losses. I was always more of a lurker than a poster, but I have so enjoyed this site and got alot of great plants by ws! FB is not the same - I can barely find new messages or postings on it, let alone do the searching that was so invaluable to me in learning about ws. I really don't even like it for socializing. Who cares if I'm going to the store? Does everyone really want a picture of my life every 15 minutes? No one wants to be that bored!!! I am one of the many who has not done as much gardening the past few years. I lost my mom unexpectedly in 2011 and my dad after a long bout of cancer in 2012. So what little attention and energy I have had have been elsewhere. While my flower beds are reasonably full, I do plan to ws a few things this year - annuals and such - to fill in gaps. I want to get back to digging in the dirt regularly and taking better care of them. I think it will make for a very happy spring and summer. :- )))))))

Well, perhaps no one knows the answer to your question. A similar question has been asked before on this forum but no specific answer was offered (use the search feature to find it). Good luck.

Sorry for the personal followup, but I forgot about this post with the "I hope I'll be okay" part thrown in. At this point I know I'll be 100% okay barring medical oddity, but I knew I'd be in for 6-8 months of treatment, minimum, no matter what. I just didn't want to have my last contribution to this thread to have "hope I'll be okay" in it. Kauai will always be in my vacation plans from now on even if I don't take a job there, though. It was a great couple weeks even with the job interviews strewn through-out.

Unfortunately, I wonder it's a losing cause no matter what I would possibly do to combat the beetles ... well, because only two mins away lives a lily breeder with a vast collection of tens of thousands of lily stems, also my next door neighbor has a substantial patch and makes no effort to fight the bugs. Oh, as for lilies with the least amount of damage, the gorgeous and stately growing 'Red Velvet' was thankfully hardly touched. Peren.all, how frustrating to have chickmunks chow down on the lily buds and then go after the bulbs! This spring, a pocket gopfer had come in during the night and commenced tunneling next to the foundation of the house, amazing just how fast and extensive they can dig in a only few hours time! First, I thought to drown the bugger out, though the full blast of the garden hose draining down the tunnels wasn't enough to snuff him out and he even popped his head up and began gnawing at the end of the hose! Sooo, forget that and I grabbed the propane tank in which I installed a short section of hose onto and drained the propane gas down his burrows for several minutes, job soon done and I later excavated his remains, ugh such LARGE teeth and long claws! I hoped he had done no damage to my plants, until buddleia 'Crown Jewels' had soon wilted and died.