Flower update

[sublimatedangel]

Eeek! I was watering my new flowers and I noticed my cute little pot of mini-daisy-looking-things has aphids :( The bigger daisy and the pansies and marigolds are all okay, so I'm thinking aphids don't like those flowers? I brushed a bunch off but I think I'm going to have to go looking for a ladybug. Not that I can really keep a ladybug in the house. Hmm, I may have to have my mom house-sit the daisies.

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Oh, crud

[horrorvenus.livejournal.com]

How could we have kept those things alive for two weeks and not notice they had aphids?
I'm sorry :o(

Re: Oh, crud

[sublimatedangel]

Oh don't worry! I don't think it's your fault at all! Heck, I didn't notice them until just yesterday. I still love my little daisies, I just want to protect them!

[katlyn.livejournal.com]

Actually, you -can- keep ladybugs in the house. My English teacher in highschool used to do it all the time in the classroom. They pretty much stay on the plants or on the windows.

However, if you don't want them flying all over the place, here's a trick: Take some fine netting (like crinoline-style) and balloon it over the plant. Put the ladybugs inside the netting ballon, and either secure the edges around the stem or trunk of the plant with a rubber band (we used to do this for ficus trees) or balloon around the whole pot and rubber band in a bunch.

When the ladybugs eat all the aphids, take the plant outside and release the rubber band on the netting balloon. Fly away, ladybug!

It's really not as much work as I may have made it sound like, and it's actually kinda fun and pretty.