Yeah Izyjo, I have the garden in a good state now with a high number of ladybugs, lacewings and hoverflies to help in keeping down the baddies. I have reached the stage now when I am happy to see a few aphids on a rose bud as I think it will be breakfast for a ladybug baby. Coming from America, you might be able to tell me if there is any organic way of slaughtering these horrible big grey beasts (about twice the size of greenfly) that attack lupins and apparently came across the Pond from your neck of the woods. I have had to stop growing them as they don't appear to have any natural predator across here