Isn't it a little early for Japanese beetles? I gave up on them. They make me sick when they clusterf***. Well, my second cousin farms for me and his mom too elderly to care for flowers. He said her red rose got them all over (red were the ones they bothered the least of mine; they like white, yellow, pink, light colors and other flowers).
My second cousin said he sprayed his mom's rose with Tide and they never bothered it again. I knew they sell some soap product for them but nobody thought it worked very well.
I'm hoping they won't be too bad this year. Here's my theory. The frost line went very deep this winter and didn't thaw until well into April or whenever. We shall see. Last year, we had so much rain starting about the time they come up to feed on grass until they emerge in June that they got drowned. They weren't bad at all. I've read lots and lots about them.
They really like my rosa rugosa. We set out the hanging Japanese beetle traps, and they worked real well. I’ll have to try some tide.
I am allergic to tide though, so I’ll have to be careful mixing it.
I used to have blue nigella, blue and purple larkspur, and those big pink shirley poppies, plus some white marguerite daisies that would come up before my lawn really gets going. These would reseed every year, and it was such a feast for the eyes.
Aliska, I just ordered a bunch of cottage garden seeds, and it is all your fault for bringing up Shirley poppies, which then got me all nostalgic for my blue and pink flowers..with a smattering of the white marguerite daisies, and next thing you know..I'm perusing self sowing annuals for a cottage garden...
I've been wanting to put some white picket fencing in my front yard, and I have some roses to plant, and now, I will have seed..I think I ordered way more than I needed. Plus, I ordered some that I'm not really familiar with, but the pictures sure looked pretty.