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  • can someone please tell me what and why is my pyracanthus infested with a type of caterpillar that hangs by a thread from the foliage? Is it damaging the plant and also could it be the caterpillar of a garden butterfly? I don't want to kill anything that might be beneficial to the garden
  • why not take a few branches and put them in a large jar together with catepillars and see what happens. Did this in NZ once and watched the whole cycle. The kids were gobsmacked!
  • I am new to the site. Can read the blogs but not the feedback. HELP
  • Hi
    Hvae alerted the blog-site boffins about your problem, hopefully a response will appear soon!
  • my potatoes have what look like seeds on the tops of the plants.what should i do about them.
  • I have just bought a weeping crab apple
    Royar Beauty.I would like it to be a little taller would it be ok if I tied the leader stem to a cane before allowing it to weep would this increase extra sideshoots or should I cut the leader at required hight
  • can anyone help, i have a cordyline about five years old and in good condition but have noticed several shoots coming up from the base, these look like baby ones, what do i do with them??? dig them up or leave them were they are
  • Hi all i have a Bottle Brush tree which ive had for 15 years with tremedous flowers each year, but this year with snow and the severe frost,i think i have lost it, the leaves are brown with just a couple looking green! what do i do next?
  • I have a very tall growing plant in my garden the leaves are like those of gladiolas the flower looks similiar to a freesia only larger it is red, I think it may be grown from a tuber or a bulb it grows in clumps do you know the name of it!
  • I have a problem of insect(?) attacking a flowering bushes / shrub and ,lately, my daliahs. I see no lavia or worms yet the leaves are brown and eaten away, some with brown curly bubbles. Is this leaf minor and what intecticide spray will I use?
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