I found these curl grubs yesterday sitting on the top of one of my pots. There were three of them just sitting on the top of all the leaf litter. There isn't anything in this particular pot, but what worries me is that I have a dwarf lemon tree in a large pot not too far away, and these grubs feed on roots.
I have been doing some research this morning & found out that these grubs are the larvae of beetles, which I find very interesting. As these ones were about 4cm long, I would like to see the beetle that they tun into. About an hour later they were no where to be seen. Possibly buried back into the soil in the pot, or maybe lunch for my favourite magpies.
A few weeks ago someone gave me a picked flower off some kind of shrub. It had a leaf like a hibiscus, and the flower looked like a hibiscus, but it was a blue/mauve shade with deep red coloured staymens. I know hibiscus come in all shapes, sizes & colours, but I had not seen one like this before. As I do with any cut flower, I put it in water to enjoy inside for a while. Well, this one fell off within 24 hours, and the leaves dried, shrivelled, and finally fell off a few days later, but the stem was still green, so I left it in the water to see what would happen. Within a week, I saw new leaves & some roots forming. So now this is in a small pot of soil, nothing special, just soil from the garden. So I will baby it for a while & see what hapens. 
What do they say, "Nothing ventured, nothing gained"?
