Where did lily beetles come into the mix, or have I missed something?
Humper and humpee @B3... I meant to say to you yesterday - I'm not able to read PMs unless they're only one line. Something I've done to settings I think. Hopeless mare...
I've never had blackfly on Philadelphus, but maybe the birds snaffle them up. Glad you got a handle on it @Chelseajane - for now at least
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
B3: My lily beetles must have faster reactions than yours. Or you have faster reactions and more delicacy than me.
Reading cornelly, what I do is spray them with dilute washing up liquid. That seems to stun them, Then you can pick and quash easily. A few do drop, put I reckon they won't survive.
This year I have had no grubs, which augurs well for next season.
But see my post on Box Moth catterpillers (Box Plant): there are people out there who don't like to kill pests.
location: Surrey Hills, England, ex-woodland acidic sand. "Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
I chopped my diseased mini box hedge to the ankles but its too awkward to dig out. One valiant plant keeps sprouting every year. It deserves to survive if it can but it's on its own. I give it the odd squirt of water, but that's it. Maybe it has developed some resistance. I'm finding many aquilegia are now surviving the blight or whatever it was. Survival of the fittest, genetics and all that @Fairygirl
Aquilegias get a bit manky after they've flowered too. Mildew an' all that jazz. I usually cut them back, unless there's something in front to hide them Didn't Chris Beardshaw do a seaweed treatment or something similar on his dodgy box hedge a few years ago? Cut it back, as per the usual advice, to increase airflow etc, and then seaweed drenches every so often. I'm not sure if I've remembered that accurately though. It was on Beechgrove.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Plenty of airflow in my box hedge as there's only one plant left. I'm pretty sure it was my own fault it got the blight I didn't bother to clear off the acer leaves they had fallen on it one year. Ideal conditions for disease.
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Humper and humpee @B3...
I meant to say to you yesterday - I'm not able to read PMs unless they're only one line. Something I've done to settings I think. Hopeless mare...
I've never had blackfly on Philadelphus, but maybe the birds snaffle them up. Glad you got a handle on it @Chelseajane - for now at least
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Reading cornelly, what I do is spray them with dilute washing up liquid. That seems to stun them, Then you can pick and quash easily. A few do drop, put I reckon they won't survive.
This year I have had no grubs, which augurs well for next season.
But see my post on Box Moth catterpillers (Box Plant): there are people out there who don't like to kill pests.
"Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I'm finding many aquilegia are now surviving the blight or whatever it was. Survival of the fittest, genetics and all that @Fairygirl
Didn't Chris Beardshaw do a seaweed treatment or something similar on his dodgy box hedge a few years ago? Cut it back, as per the usual advice, to increase airflow etc, and then seaweed drenches every so often. I'm not sure if I've remembered that accurately though. It was on Beechgrove.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...