First, these are Tiffany roses and they are Andrea s favourite rose. Three, gardeners do anything to keep significant others happy. Kneeling down beside the pot, I started looking at the leaves and canes. The leaves that had been eaten were almost totally gone and those that had some surface left had the outsides of the leaf eaten. This sign tells me that I m probably looking for a caterpillar as they tend to chomp almost the entire leaf before moving on.
Slugs do the same while beetles tend to chew holes in the middle of the leaf.
Total time elapsed, one possibly two minutes. My email inbox is full of questions from gardeners and a theme is appearing that disturbs me. She wanted to know whether this was the right thing to do. The developing theme here is the reliance and belief that using chemicals in the garden will fix any problem. Spray it with Diazanon.