irun5k, all I can think of is that it sounds like you've had grubs in the past, in which case you should have made a granular application to the underlying soil before the sod was laid. I'm interested in how you found them (obviously lifted up the sod) and how many you found. Let the grower/installer know that you found grubs two days after it was installed. You can go ahead and apply the Dylox in the evening, it will be ok to wait and water it in at 5am.

I got my PJP II (Weeks) at a local nursery. I believe Weeks grows for JP. It came in a mini pot and has done very well. I have fewer roses and I like to choose the bush that I am going to buy. I bought three bare root by mail last year. They were disappointing when they arrived, but two have done well. I shovel pruned Double Delight.

Amazing, is right, and if you continue to make predictions like this one, I'm willing to let you be right all of the time :) I can't wait to see "Good as Gold". It won't be long now. Now here is a situation that is less than wonderful. My father puts Ketchup on EVERYTHING. It drives us crazy. Well I mentioned to my mother that "maybe dad would buy me a Ketchup and Mustard". Well he did, bare root, through a company that a) does not take credit cards, b) is unclear if coming COD or with an invoice, c) he has sent a check to them, d) he had a typo in my house number, e) Fed EX Home says already shipped but it can't be tracked, F) I emailed their customer service account and have not received a response, g) I have the homeowners of the address that he used on alert. So somewhere out there in this heat is a bare root rose that I will want to cherish, and we have no idea when it is coming. It's been about 10 days since he purchased it. It will mean a lot to me and will take some real care to keep it wet, I'm sure. But it is from my dad. My JFK rose was a gift from my mom to they both will remain important to me. Stay tuned on this never ending saga, Scott (oh, it was a for my 50th Birthday too) We have a family luncheon today to celebrate, and I just want to stay home and watch for the delivery. LOL!

We who live in the 8-9 growing zones are pushing reality is it.....but when we do it with containers, we have a chance to hedge our bets. We can push the limit, by moving with the sun. It keeps me busy, of course. And when something looks really bad, I try to give it a more moderate location. But surprisingly enough, the ones I'm having the problems with are the ones with a lot of shade and not much sun. That was the case with the one hosta which succumbed to southern blight, my lovely The Razor's Edge. It grossed me out having to bag it and throw it into the kitchen garbage which is collected tomorrow. I picked it up like you would doggy poop in the city, and never touched the pot at all. And I'll throw in a picture of my area reserved for the plantaginea offspring. The space gets a good bit of morning sun, and then the long rays of the afternoon sun as well. I patrol the area because our lot is not laid out according to the cardinal directions, just a hair off. When the first day of autumn, about Sept 21, arrives, I always mark the shadow pattern, where the sun rises and sets, because that is the true east/west for my location. The hottest spot in my garden is along our northern privacy fence. That is for the summertime. In the wintertime, that area, which is about 22 feet wide, is in total shade. I could (and plan to) place some of my hosta (in containers) along that strip of land but against the foundation which is enclosed crawl space. My original thought of locating the dwarf or minis in a strip I call the "allee" (alley I guess) turns out to be too shady, too dry, and not enough air circulation. Where we need to avoid humidity and heat, we must have air circulation or the southern blight can find its way into my garden. I know that the original hosta that I bought were planted in mostly sun up in Massachusetts, zone 5b or now 6a. I did not see them blooming, but my DH sent pictures of the plantaginea, which started my obsession with fragrant hosta. Ken, you say to throw them on the driveway, and now you copping out as a "crazy man?" No way. I remember Bruce Banyai saying that he tried everything to get his Aphrodites to bloom, including scraping the roots. Which is just about the same as throwing them on the driveway, right? Or dragging them across rough cement? So I realize that I've babied my hosta way too much. And today at the hardware store they wanted to know what I was doing with all the mulch and I said HOSTA....every one of those ladies....there were four of them....were familiar with HOSTA. And I learned that the local big garden that is so popular, Bellingrath Gardens, has its CHRISTMAS open house and tour, and that featured in their GREENHOUSES, are BLOOMING HOSTA. I hope no one takes exception to my shouting, but it is worth getting excited about it. Guess that this Christmas I'll be headed to Bellingrath with my camera to document the event and share it. I'll also have to call the gardener there (the one who does the greenhouses anyway, they have so many)and see if they are the folks who ordered a lot of hosta from Naylor Creek last year. Gary said I was not the only Mobile buyer, which intrigues me. I'd love to find another hosta lover here in town. Wouldn't that be great!!! You might take it for granted that other folks grow hosta and you can chat over the back fence about them, but HA, not around here. I said my goal was not to create a display or tour garden, but for my friends, that may be what I have to do.....as well as giving away some hosta when I run out of room and cannot say no to a pretty plant! Here is some of my fragrant hosta where they get more morning sun. The nearest ones are not the fragrants, they are beyond the sasanqua out there closer to the 7' high chain link fence. Once my star jasmine fills in, no more chainlink showing....