Whe have had Moonflowers in front of our house for the second year now. I cannot find information that the tomato worm likes anything but tomato plants, but last year we pulled quite a few tomato worms of all sizes off the plants. This year I have pulled/knocked off a few. A friend a couple of blocks away-gave me the seeds--said that for the first time he had the worms on his plants also. He has quite a permanent stand. They seem to be perennial in Middle Tennessee. Check to see if the Wolf moth is laying eggs and little tomato worms are munching away.

She has some good quotes, but this one is a bit odd, IMHO. "Satiety is a mongrel that barks at the heels of plenty".

Never thought of the narcissist angle, but it does make sense. When you think how welcoming everyone over here was, with as far as one can tell little bother about POC, in fact it appeared like a breath of fresh air. Grandmother-in-law took her under her wing (perhaps remembering how D had been treated in the early days with little apparent concern for her welfare). Lots of smiling, glad-handing, beautiful wedding etc. How/why did it all go wrong SO quickly? At the moment yet another legal dispute in underway between the Home Office and the couple concerning their security when/if they visit these shores. They feel their family will not be safe as they are no longer entitled to round the clock police protection, and "Sorry Sir but you cannot hire the Metropolitan Police by the hour/day. That isn't their job." BTW Don't forget that Daddy has already given you millions of £££'s. You are not on the breadline. A short afternoon tea visit to Windsor has given him the realisation that he must 'protect' HM and make sure the 'right people' are around her; whatever that means.

Success speaks for itself. You did everything humanly possible to ensure primo results. Don't change a thing. I used to feed Miracle Gro 3 Month Rose and Bloom pellets. Nothing else except for some varieties of roses whose chlorotic foliage I supplemented with Miracle Grow for acid Loving Plants, liquid feed, two or three consecutive feedings and the foliage corrected. More recently I went liquid feed with MG Bloom Booster, every two weeks. I fiddled around with a swimming pool pump submerged in a 5 gallon bucket of Miracle Gro Bloom Booster. The exit hose was aimed at each bush's base and way I went feeding each bush in the 50 odd bush count bed, lickily split. I used my judgement as to how much each bush got, size and height ruling the amount given to each one. It took a number of 5 gallon bucket fulls to finish the job, but it was a bit messy, although pretty effective. Last year was the first year I used Osmocote Plus 15-9-12 + other essentials, 6 month feed. Put down in spring at leaf out right after pruning, about early April or so, an 8# bag just about used up for the 50 odd bushes. The jitters about using Osmocote and nothing else were allayed when come fall, I never had such vigorous, consistent growth. Now, I would be loathe to change from Osmocote. One other thing, I have an 8 bird pigeon loft of fancy breeds: 6 Pigmy Pouters (English breed), one Hollie Cropper (Dutch breed), and one sweet natured white American Fantail who I call Romeo. They're all pets, no raising of young....mostly all hen pigeons...only two cock pigeons who for the most part ignore each other, no blood bath fights. Their manure, collected all year long, is spread over the entire rose bed in late fall (right now), right on top of the mulch, since by spring it has worked its way through the mulch to the rose roots. It then pushes a very abundant spring flush and stops feeding, worn out by early July, as the Osmocote really goes to work at that time. The heat by then triggers the Osmocote to start releasing its nutrients. When I apply it under the 2.5" pine bark mulch earlier in spring it stays relatively inactive, un-triggered, letting the pigeon manure do its duty since it is so cool under the mulch until July. The cool weather in spring does not stop the pigeon manure from doing its duty. So you see, my pet pigeons have an environmental relationship with my roses, artificial, yes, but effective. Moses