Try planting garlic or garlic chives around the roses, assuming that you have well drained soils with your high rainfall. Tansy also helps repel ants and termites - either the plant (very aggressive) or spreading leaves on the soil surface.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Dan & Laurel deGrassi Sent: Sunday, February 17, 2002 1:33 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: companion planting Dear List, We have some friends who are growing roses (at home) in southern Brasil and are looking for a way to protect the plants from the leaf cutter ants that proliferate there.
