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March 9, 2007
Garden menaces
An interesting book has just dropped on to my desk entitled The Pest & Weed Expert by Dr D G Hessayon.
According the the press release that came with the book garden pests are changing and a number of new menaces are now putting our plants and shrubs at even greater risk.
There is a particularly nasty rosemary beetle now at large and this has been joined by the vine weevil on the top five RHS Garden Menace List.
As a reasonably keen gardener myself the book makes fascinating reading, along with many of his others, and Dr Hessayon is certainly an expert when it comes to the subject.
His first book was published in 1956 and with a staggering 49 million copies in print, Experts are the world's number one top selling gardening books.
One thing I have noticed is that everything in the garden seems to be at least a month ahead of itself. Shrubs which normally come to life in mid April are already starting to flower and the lawn is growing rapidly by the day.
And, yesterday had the calendar not being showing March you could have thought it was almost mid-summer as the temperature got up to a staggering 16 degrees plus as I journeyed on the M25 to Essex.
The Pest & Weed Expert is now available, priced at £7.99
Posted by aseal at March 9, 2007 7:42 AM