Forum home Talkback
This Forum will close on Wednesday 27 March, 2024. Please refer to the announcement on the Discussions page for further detail.

grandiflora

val 9val 9 Posts: 2

Hi our magnolia grandiflora is flowering but the flowers are turning brown, not opening fully and full of black bugs.

Any ideas of treatment please?

Posts

  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,131

    Bumping up image


    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • fidgetbonesfidgetbones Posts: 17,616

    Have you a photo of the black bugs. ?

    Are they pollen beetles?

    Magnolia grandiflora flowers do turn brown when they get wet as they are about to open. They only really look good in  a dry spell.

     

  • val 9val 9 Posts: 2

    Thank you.Think they might be as destroying stamens. Do I treat or leave?

Sign In or Register to comment.