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Hello Forkers ... June Edition

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  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889

    right, back working again. 
    I tried the " switch it off and on again" . Well.. I tried , I couldn't even do that so I removed the battery for a couple of hours and I've been able to get my photos from the camera.

    Cannas;

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    Devon.
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889

    I've got one left. So far so good. image

    This is the flower, but the one virus free plant isn't in flower. 

    All the others have gone. image

    Last edited: 10 June 2017 15:47:12

    Devon.
  • Lily PillyLily Pilly Posts: 3,845

    Hosta that's awful! So glad there is at least one left   what caused it?

    Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.”
    A A Milne
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889

    It's spread by aphids.

    Funny thing is we don't really have any neighbours close enough for me to have worried about it.

    Hey ho. 

    You might be able to make out the healthy one in the first photo. Far bed at the edge of the path. Much darker foliage.

    Devon.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147

    Oh Hosta ....... that looks so sad image


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





  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889

    Dove, is the one I gave you ok? I'm kinda paranoid that I've given you an infected plant.

    Devon.
  • Lily PillyLily Pilly Posts: 3,845

    I would be so upset, you are very calm!

    Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.”
    A A Milne
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889

    It started showing last year, so I've really been hiding from it since then. 

    I use a " tropical gardening" group on FB and the consensus is , it's pretty endemic now. I feel a lot more sorry for folk who earn their livings from selling them. I'll not be buying any more for a while and I'm sure I'm not the only one.
    I've got  saved seed of canna warscewiczii which I'll grow as annuals from now on.

    Last edited: 10 June 2017 16:17:52

    Devon.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090

    Goodness Hosta.  I'd be seriously despondent losing that many plants.  Took me ages to get over the devastation to evergreen shrubs when we had a -32C - they don't like it and all of them, including conifers, curled up their toes.   Took me a week to get over a hailstorm that obliterated my rhubarb and veggie seedlings and hostas while I was away at Chelsea and came home to see them shredded.

    I have applied the evil product.  brushwood killer and recommended for tough weeds such as thistles and nettles and also for unwanted saplings and re-growth on tree stumps.

    Now to go and paint, just for a change.

    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889

    Thanks for the support guys. 

    On a plus note. I'm about to stick in some sweetcorn , courgettes, tomatoes and butternut squash in the beds where the cannas were.

    Devon.
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