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What is this? Is it diseased? Advice appreciated

ohdeeremeohdeereme Posts: 39
in Problem solving
Hello

Me again after some much needed advice again

I'm not even sure what this bush is but this year it's absolutely covered in something

I'm hoping you can advise and if the bush just needs to come down?

Thank you, as always


 
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  • ohdeeremeohdeereme Posts: 39
    Another pic 
  • ohdeeremeohdeereme Posts: 39

  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    Aphids and their spent cases
    It's a Euonymous fortuneii variety. It'll shrug that off. Some heavy rain will help clean it up. 
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • bcpathomebcpathome Posts: 1,313
    It’s not a problem ,just aphids of some description. Squirt them off with a hose or just wait till it rains ,then it will be cleaned of all signs .
  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,340
    Looks like Euonymus Scale to me-
    https://www.rhs.org.uk/biodiversity/euonymus-scale

    Billericay - Essex

    Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
    Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
  • ohdeeremeohdeereme Posts: 39
    edited July 2023
    Thank you for your replies

    Is it a particularly bad idea to plant a rose nearby? If this kind of bush attracts that level of aphids?
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    I wondered if I could see what looked like scale further in @Pete.8, but I couldn't tell.
    Not something I've ever had on them, but I think you're spot on with that.

    I wonder if it needs a good chopping back @ohdeereme. Is it  large?
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • ohdeeremeohdeereme Posts: 39

    So this is as big as it is and as I have ever let it

    I think I'm going to cut it back to be honest, I don't want the added cost of trying loads of treatment and it's already thinning in places.

    It came with the house and I was never bothered by it


  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,340
    I have one that's often smothered with scale insects - I just leave it.
    You can't seem them from a distance :)

    Billericay - Essex

    Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
    Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
  • floraliesfloralies Posts: 2,718
    Scale insects, mine get them from time to time, you can prune them quite heavily and they bounce back.
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