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What’s wrong with my Columbine

bgqffykpz67eQQTLk3bgqffykpz67eQQTLk3 Posts: 4
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I just plant Kirigami Columbine and I don’t know what’s going on. I fear ADM. it gets sun starting at 2-3pm. Lots of water. Help! I love these flowers

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  • AsarumAsarum Posts: 661
    It appeared in my garden a few years ago and completely wiped out all my plants.  I tried some again last year but they soon succumbed.  Such a shame as I do like them and had quite a collection.


    East Anglia
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    They often look like that after flowering. Cut back the old leaves and see what the new ones look like when they emerge. If they're very pale, small with spindly stems, it's the mildew and you will need to dispose of the plant. If they're a fresh bright green, it's ok.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • bgqffykpz67eQQTLk3bgqffykpz67eQQTLk3 Posts: 4
    Asarum said:
    It appeared in my garden a few years ago and completely wiped out all my plants.  I tried some again last year but they soon succumbed.  Such a shame as I do like them and had quite a collection.


    No!!!!!!! It’s what I feared. 😢 I just bought them 
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    It does look like it to me too … I first saw it when I visited Carrie Thomas’ and her National Collection in S. Wales with a mutual friend. … At the time it had only just begun to appear and she wasn’t sure what was happening … such a shame

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0202f0n

    Carrie describes the symptoms here …
    http://www.touchwoodplants.co.uk/aquilegia-downy-mildew.htm

    I would destroy the plant and notify the suppliers with photographs. 

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





  • bgqffykpz67eQQTLk3bgqffykpz67eQQTLk3 Posts: 4
    thank you everyone for the advice. They have been removed and burned 😭

    do I need to do anything to the soil? They were only in the ground for 3 weeks. Thinking just dig a bigger hole to remove any other infected dirt 
  • AnniDAnniD Posts: 12,585
    The Hardy Plant Society thinks the spores could live in the soil for some time, but l can't find anything to say that the soil should be removed.
    https://www.hardy-plant.org.uk/resources/miscellaneous-articles/Aquilegia-Downy-Mildew

    It could well be a problem if you wanted to try growing Aquilegias in the same place.
    Personally if l wanted to be absolutely certain l would consider removing the soil, but if you're not planning on trying to grow Aquilegias there, and they were only there for 3 weeks l wouldn't worry.

    Others may disagree though  :)
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I just let it seed some are resistant, the others I dispose of. There are fewer and fewer diseased ones as the years pass. Only two this year.  I haven't bothered to sow  any  fancy ones just in case. 
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • bgqffykpz67eQQTLk3bgqffykpz67eQQTLk3 Posts: 4
    I think I may wait a year or more until disease resistant plants come along before planting more
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