Thanks Nutcutlet - it appeared on a euphorbia in my Languedoc garden last year and after searching the internet for caterpillar images to identify I finally searched for "caterpillar on Euphorbia" and there it was - the Euphorbia Hawk Moth! It spent about five days on one plant before vanishing, and without doing that much damage to the euphorbia either.
Thanks Nutcutlet - it appeared on a euphorbia in my Languedoc garden last year and after searching the internet for caterpillar images to identify I finally searched for "caterpillar on Euphorbia" and there it was - the Euphorbia Hawk Moth! It spent about five days on one plant before vanishing, and without doing that much damage to the euphorbia either.
Yet another reason for growing the Caper Spurge
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Hiya everyone, The mole plants are now quite tall, managed to mpve them under the trees so fairly out of the way, they are full of buds do they flower? thanks
They are wild euphorbias, they keep popping up here and they grow quite big in the limestoney paddock but if they are meant to keep moles away then they don't work. Moles take no notice of them.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
I don't have any moles and I have quite a few varieties of euphorbia. I once grew one called Jimmy Platt (seeds from Chiltern) which gave off the scent of fresh coffee on hot days. The big plus in the tall ones is that they tend to flower early spring/late winter when not much else is happening in the graden. It could be Chariacus, which are stunning. They self seed abundantly which is why they do so well in the wild. Wear gloves and just pull out the ones you don't want as soon as you see them. When they get big they have thick deep tap roots and are harder to remove. Remove flowered stems once finished (again with gloves) - and take care, the sap is thick and gluey so you'll need to clean the loppers carefully.
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What a lovely caterpillar gg
What is it?
In the sticks near Peterborough
Thanks Nutcutlet - it appeared on a euphorbia in my Languedoc garden last year and after searching the internet for caterpillar images to identify I finally searched for "caterpillar on Euphorbia" and there it was - the Euphorbia Hawk Moth! It spent about five days on one plant before vanishing, and without doing that much damage to the euphorbia either.
Yet another reason for growing the Caper Spurge
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
It's lovely, I've never seen one of those, or its moth
In the sticks near Peterborough
Hiya everyone, The mole plants are now quite tall, managed to mpve them under the trees so fairly out of the way, they are full of buds do they flower? thanks
I'm surprised they haven't flowered by now jill
In the sticks near Peterborough
They are wild euphorbias, they keep popping up here and they grow quite big in the limestoney paddock but if they are meant to keep moles away then they don't work. Moles take no notice of them.
I don't have any moles and I have quite a few varieties of euphorbia. I once grew one called Jimmy Platt (seeds from Chiltern) which gave off the scent of fresh coffee on hot days. The big plus in the tall ones is that they tend to flower early spring/late winter when not much else is happening in the graden. It could be Chariacus, which are stunning. They self seed abundantly which is why they do so well in the wild. Wear gloves and just pull out the ones you don't want as soon as you see them. When they get big they have thick deep tap roots and are harder to remove. Remove flowered stems once finished (again with gloves) - and take care, the sap is thick and gluey so you'll need to clean the loppers carefully.