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Getting Rid of Garden Pests

How to identify unwanted pests and some tested tips for eliminating them.

There are few things more disappointing to gardeners than waiting all year for a beloved plant to bloom only to wake one morning and find it ravaged by pests. Especially vexing is when you have no idea what's attacking it and have to don a pest detective hat in order to kill the pest and save the plant.  Early this spring, I walked through my garden and stopped beside a small rose I grew from a cutting of a bush my grandmother tended for decades. My grandmother passed away a year ago, so I put a lot of pressure on myself to make her memory live on in my garden. When I found the one lone rose bud teeming with tiny green bugs, I took to the Internet.  "There are aphids crawling atop my grandmother's rose bud [grumble, curse, mumble, scream…

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