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Grrrr homebase violas

RainbowfishRainbowfish Posts: 276
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I have just disposed of two trays of homebase's violas. They had such pretty flowers and a fantastic fragrance for such teeny flowers but they had developed pansy leaf spot withing days of bringing them homeimage

I really shouldn't be tempted by super cheap plants & just go to a trusted nursery.

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  • Steve 309Steve 309 Posts: 2,753

    Sometimes.image

  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039

    I'm not so sure Rainbowfish, I grow my Violas from seed and some years I have terrible problems with leaf spot, other years none at all.

    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • crazyflowercrazyflower Posts: 69

    I bought a tray of pansies few weeks ago from a garden centre and they have developed bad leaf spot, I've been spraying them with fungicide, I've  thrown one away that's died, think the others will b the same. I've bought quite a few pansies/violas over the years they've never been like this.

  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190

    When mine go like that and they usually do eventually, I chop them right back, they come up again fine. I plant them out in the garden then.

    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

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