The moths that produce hornworms don't lay eggs in big clusters like that. If they did, given the appetite and size of their caterpillars, they'd quickly defoliate any plant they were laid on and starve to death or risk predation by exposure. Those are stink bug eggs, IMO. There are many different species of stink bugs, and their eggs also change in appearance depending on how old they are. Those look like relatively recently laid brown marmorated stink bug eggs. http://bugguide.net/node/view/434596/bgpage When I find them, I usually just snip off the leaflet and crush it well underfoot or I drop it into a container of soapy water I keep around for picking off pests.

This is the information I have concerning this pattern. As I stated in my original post followups (http://ths.gardenweb.com/forums/load/quilt/msg091614491939.html) If anyone wants to make this quilt they should purchase the pattern! Here is a response from the pattern company where mine was bought (for my guild's use): www.piecesfrommyheart.net "The Pattern #230 Trees Up! Lights On! is definately not out of print. We ship it every day. We will be glad to send it to you. Retails for $7.50, plus shipping. You can place your order via e-mail, website, or call/fax 515-295-5672. We are in the office Tues thru Thurs from 9am to noon and 1pm to 4 (Central Standard Time)" It can also be found here: http://whiteswanquilt.com/detailPM230.html And here: http://www.seamstome.com/pat_kit.html Though it was generous of someone to recreate this pattern, it is infringing on copyright laws to use the one posted above! This pattern is still in print, and as I'd stated in the original post, if anyone wishes to make this quilt (myself included) you must purchase the pattern. I had tried to explain this in the followup posts to my original thread, and if I had known it was going to create such an issue, then I never would have shared a picture of that quilt. [This is a different issue than say the One Block Wonder also posted in the original thread. The tree quilt was from a pattern, not just a technique such as OBW from a book] Call me the quilt police if you'd like & kick me off this board if you like, but I've been around long enough to know that copyright laws are there to protect the creator. They are there for a reason...The designer wishes to make money from their idea. It is wrong to copy their idea without giving them due credit for their efforts. They've gone to a lot of trouble to get this protection and they deserve to be paid their price for their idea/pattern. There are 3 links given for purchasing this pattern. If you really like the pattern then just shuck out the $7.50 and purchase it! I've said my peace. Here is a link that might be useful: tree pattern

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My garden oops was this past weekend. I had a potted clematis that I put next to a bush, thinking that it will climb up into the bush and become a bush-covered clematis flower-thing. Well, it never did, so this year, I thought I would re-locate the pot. I felt empowered that I was doing the right thing, so I pulled the clematis away from the bush, carefully unwinding what I could to save what recent spring growth that I could. Finally, I got it...but wait, there was still some clematis vines on the bush. Oh well, I think I saved most of it, right? Surely it was just a missing small segment from a branching here and there, and was a reasonable loss to accept. I relocated the pot but that vine nagged at me. I finally went to look. As I finally untangled it from the bush, it turns out there were 2 additional vines of growth that I had somehow torn loose from the pot. These vines were over 4-feet each. I am not sure how I tore them away from the pot or when, but now I have a big regret of losing these two stems, which if I had just carefully unpryed them like I was doing right now, could have still been saved and been a part of the pot transfer.