Please keep us all updated cwoodward. I have about a dozen lilies in pots and 1/2 dozen in beds so this is a really useful experiment as far as I am concerned.
Still no lilies here in Lancashire - I haven't done my daily inspection today mind, as it is drizzling here.
I'm even driven to killing them in NT gardens I visit (with the blessings of the gardener of course). I have a lily thats just a couple of inches above ground level and they have already had a go at it.
My 6 year old niece came to stay over the Easter weekend. I offered her 50p for every lily beetle she found. She earned £7.50 over the weekend and 15 bugs were well and truly squished...she was not squeamish at all. If it hadn't been for the fact I saw the evidence of each squashed bug I may have thought she was recycling them!
It would appear, in her world at least, that lily bug hunting was more fun than Easter Egg hunting and it was certainly more profitable!
Maybe Cwoodward meant that he lives in Blackpool, and thus Lancashire, like me?
I still don't have lily beetle so maybe it's because I am at 750mt and presumably you, Cwoodward, being in Blackpool, are at nothing mts? Perhaps the beetles can't hack it at our altitude until later in Spring?
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Please keep us all updated cwoodward. I have about a dozen lilies in pots and 1/2 dozen in beds so this is a really useful experiment as far as I am concerned.
Still no lilies here in Lancashire - I haven't done my daily inspection today mind, as it is drizzling here.
I'm even driven to killing them in NT gardens I visit (with the blessings of the gardener of course). I have a lily thats just a couple of inches above ground level and they have already had a go at it.
Just squidged another one
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
My 6 year old niece came to stay over the Easter weekend. I offered her 50p for every lily beetle she found. She earned £7.50 over the weekend and 15 bugs were well and truly squished...she was not squeamish at all. If it hadn't been for the fact I saw the evidence of each squashed bug I may have thought she was recycling them!
It would appear, in her world at least, that lily bug hunting was more fun than Easter Egg hunting and it was certainly more profitable!
We know now that you live in Blackpool Cwoodward, but where is the picture?
Maybe Cwoodward meant that he lives in Blackpool, and thus Lancashire, like me?
I still don't have lily beetle so maybe it's because I am at 750mt and presumably you, Cwoodward, being in Blackpool, are at nothing mts? Perhaps the beetles can't hack it at our altitude until later in Spring?
as soon as it stops raining I am off to have a look, horrid little blighters