aargh no - just a bit too drastic Bruce - yes, if I could take the cuttings and still have the majority of the main plant but it only has three main stems, each with forks. Although I will read with interest what advice you give Alan ie if you suggest perhaps just taking a couple of centimetres for a cutting. That could work.
Seriously I do want to be beast free but I'm going to try every suggested solution before I have to sacrifice the plant which I will do as a very last resort...after I've taken cuttings of course
Why not try companion planting with chrysanthemums , in particular, c.cinnararifolium, or c. coccineum- these plants are the source of pyrethrin, an insecticidal extracted from the dried, crushed flower heads of these plants. It works by attacking the nervous system of the insect which does not have a protective barrier like we do ( our skin). The insect 'breathes' it in through pores in it's body and almost immediately suffers a series of extreme convulsions and finally paralysis. The woolly aphids should either migrate to your chrysanths' , suck the sap and die, or they will be over come by the pyrethrins given off by the flowers.
Like your chrysanthemum tip. I've wooly aphid on my crab apple. Got it last year but it reduced by itself so I didn't do anything. It's back again this year. Would like to give it a natural little help to fight it off. had a quick look at chrysanthemum seeds and can only spot carinatum and indicum and segetum. Would these do similar? I've also recently planted shasta daisies near by. Will these help?
im trying to locate the name of this plant and having trouble, i got some but forgot the name ,i want to find out how to do cuttings help please if poss
I had forgotten the second part of the name, but today I was at the garden centre (still on the hunt for a spray) and couldn't resist this little baby one. You can't really see the real size difference because the new one is in the foreground so looks bigger but I was trying to keep as much distance from the infested one as possible. I'm putting it in a different room but if it becomes infested in the same way, I'm not going to persevere. Incidentally what the soapy liquid did was bring the horrors out of all the crevices for air and I've given them a good soaking with insecticide while they were more obvious - so fingers crossed.
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aargh no - just a bit too drastic Bruce - yes, if I could take the cuttings and still have the majority of the main plant but it only has three main stems, each with forks. Although I will read with interest what advice you give Alan ie if you suggest perhaps just taking a couple of centimetres for a cutting. That could work
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Seriously I do want to be beast free but I'm going to try every suggested solution before I have to sacrifice the plant which I will do as a very last resort...after I've taken cuttings of course
Why not try companion planting with chrysanthemums , in particular, c.cinnararifolium, or c. coccineum- these plants are the source of pyrethrin, an insecticidal extracted from the dried, crushed flower heads of these plants. It works by attacking the nervous system of the insect which does not have a protective barrier like we do ( our skin). The insect 'breathes' it in through pores in it's body and almost immediately suffers a series of extreme convulsions and finally paralysis. The woolly aphids should either migrate to your chrysanths' , suck the sap and die, or they will be over come by the pyrethrins given off by the flowers.
Good luck!
Hi Bruce,
Like your chrysanthemum tip. I've wooly aphid on my crab apple. Got it last year but it reduced by itself so I didn't do anything. It's back again this year. Would like to give it a natural little help to fight it off. had a quick look at chrysanthemum seeds and can only spot carinatum and indicum and segetum. Would these do similar? I've also recently planted shasta daisies near by. Will these help?
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im trying to locate the name of this plant and having trouble, i got some but forgot the name ,i want to find out how to do cuttings help please if poss
Alan it's called dracaena marginata (sp?)
I had forgotten the second part of the name, but today I was at the garden centre (still on the hunt for a spray) and couldn't resist this little baby one. You can't really see the real size difference because the new one is in the foreground so looks bigger but I was trying to keep as much distance from the infested one as possible. I'm putting it in a different room but if it becomes infested in the same way, I'm not going to persevere. Incidentally what the soapy liquid did was bring the horrors out of all the crevices for air and I've given them a good soaking with insecticide while they were more obvious - so fingers crossed.