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What's Eating My Clematis Flower Buds?

biofreakbiofreak Posts: 1,089
in Problem solving
No problem last year with flower buds on clematis but this year a hoe has appeared in the side of each just before it is beginning to swell to flowering stage. What or Who is it? What can I do about it? Bought in Clematis this year fine and nowhere near each other. -All grown on in pots and not put in ground as I am still planning final positions in new garden.

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  • biofreakbiofreak Posts: 1,089
    Not quick enough to edit this -I meant to tupe 'hole' not 'hoe'!
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited May 2018
    What sort of hole?  Pics please  :)

    By the way ... we get a whole hour to edit posts now ... just click on the cog wheel top right of post. 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Most likely to be earwigs.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    Slugs and snails eat them regularly here.
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • BobTheGardenerBobTheGardener Posts: 11,384
    Snails top of the list in my garden.
    A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    Sparrows took all the buds of a couple of my clematis.  I ended up netting them over.
  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    Tiny slugs or snails I reckon. I get the same problem sometimes.
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    For me it's slugs and snails eating the foliage and earwigs making those irritating holes right through the flower bud.  However, this evening I found 9 fat snails resting on the back of the labels of 3 clems waiting to be planted out.   All now squished.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • Nigel Smith BScNigel Smith BSc Posts: 16
    is it true about the copper (Metal) tape, 40mm wide, round the top of the pot. Stops snails in their tracks from climbing over the pot top and up the plant ??....... i just put a clem under my cox apple tree, hope it dont get a full attack !!..... its only 20" tall at the mo....
  • Dave HumbyDave Humby Posts: 1,145
    Nigel Smith BSc said:
    is it true about the copper (Metal) tape, 40mm wide, round the top of the pot. Stops snails in their tracks from climbing over the pot top and up the plant ??....... i just put a clem under my cox apple tree, hope it dont get a full attack !!..... its only 20" tall at the mo....
    I put copper table on the ‘tray’ which the hedgehog food goes on. I can confirm.....it didn’t work (for me at least). 
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