It looks clumsy, but it is my first delphinium (and it is blue!), I want to share this
picture with you (the others are just beginning to grow flower stalks, will the mites
eat them?).
DW (I can't call you dimwit!) that is very pretty. I have never had mites eat Delphs, but snails can.
My garden is very idiosyncratic, somewhat like a lukewarm greenhouse: cool enough
to grow temperate plants like delphiniums and pansies, but not cold enough to avoid
greenhouse pests like scale insects, and specially, broad or 'cyclamen' mites. They
deform plants, fading flower colour and turning leaves brown. I can´t grow dahlias,
for example. And in Brazil, acaricides aren´t easily bought by home gardeners.
It must be a whole different ball game there.
In fact, the ball game is the same (football...), and, yes, my garden, cool and damp,
is a prolifig slug nursery. But NATO-like methaldehyde bombing has saved (most of)
my plants from this devil-sent pest! (don´t worry, I´m not moving to Britain, as half
the world seems to; in fact, I wouldn´t survive two days in British weather.... But if
you want some exotic Brazilian slugs, I can send you a few!)
I love delphs - I've just got some seeds germinating. Those of yours look lovely DimWit
I have a huge snail, footprint as big as my hand, I expect those types would just occur naturally in your country...
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DW (I can't call you dimwit!) that is very pretty. I have never had mites eat Delphs, but snails can.
My garden is very idiosyncratic, somewhat like a lukewarm greenhouse: cool enough
to grow temperate plants like delphiniums and pansies, but not cold enough to avoid
greenhouse pests like scale insects, and specially, broad or 'cyclamen' mites. They
deform plants, fading flower colour and turning leaves brown. I can´t grow dahlias,
for example. And in Brazil, acaricides aren´t easily bought by home gardeners.
It must be a whole different ball game there.
In fact, the ball game is the same (football...), and, yes, my garden, cool and damp,
is a prolifig slug nursery. But NATO-like methaldehyde bombing has saved (most of)
my plants from this devil-sent pest! (don´t worry, I´m not moving to Britain, as half
the world seems to; in fact, I wouldn´t survive two days in British weather.... But if
you want some exotic Brazilian slugs, I can send you a few!)
I love delphs - I've just got some seeds germinating. Those of yours look lovely DimWit
I have a huge snail, footprint as big as my hand, I expect those types would just occur naturally in your country...