extreme novice gardener with large inherited garden has some questions please.

[navyeyelasH]

We recently bought a house and the garden is fairly large. I know nothing about gardening as I have never had a garden (always lived in flats/shared houses etc) but I am happy to learn.

My first question is about some weird black eggs on a plant/flower thing. Given I know nothing I though pictures might help!

This is the flower and here are the gross weird mini beasts.

My second question is, what is going on with my roses? Black spot disease? Is there something else too?

TIA (sorry to post and run; just nipping to shops be 30 mins!)

Oh crikey I don't have a profile!

Am serial namechanger - betadad we have met in gardening before I think - I may have been tumtumtetum then

Baby coming on monday unless operating theatres full - having a section - easy peasy hopefully!

Solidarity!

Aha, Spam (may I call you Spam?)! Your comment about passing my gardening addiction to DC led me wrongly to think that you were as yet without DC of your own to indoctrinate teach to garden. Duh.

DD is adept at pulling up all sorts of plants. Mainly the ones that don't want pulling... She started young when crawling, with a great interest in the soil in my large pot plants

Hopefully she will help DH lift the onions...

BTW michael jackson has died.

Yay! LittleSpam has great gardening potential - it just needs to be channelled!

I am very sad about MJ. A deeply flawed individual, I know, but he provided the soundtrack to my (distant) youth.

Just for you madbad and for a short time only, I have dug out a pic of DDs early gardening efforts

Am going to have to stay up and watch about MJ now...

Aww. She looks rather like my own dd - especially with that look of interrupted guilt innocence!

She is very sweet...

She is indeed. As are you. Rightly.