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Stickiness everywhere!

Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
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In what I grandly call my courtyard (back yard to everybody else!), everything is now covered with a kind of stickiness (aphids?) but I can't see what is causing it. There are two very tall 40ft birch trees within 2-3 metres of our boundary fence - is there a birch aphid?
The porch, greenhouse, chairs, fuchsia, lovely big hosta and all other plants are covered.
Will they be affected if the leaves can't breathe?  Also the wisteria on the front of the terrace wall has it's fresh new leaves all puckered up and they are also sticky. I presume there is nothing I can do on such a scale, but shou
North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone

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  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Try rinsing everything with a blast or shower - depending on how strong is the plant - from a hosepipe and put down some ant powder in case the perishers are "farming" aphids for their honeydew.  Make sure all pots and beds are well watered too as ants like dry soil for their nests.  
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  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    Thanks Obelixx, I'll try that in the morning. We're overrun with ants as well so that may well be the answer. I'm pretty sure now the stickiness is dropping from the birch trees, but this is unusual here.
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
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