Pests, Diseases and Cures

Actually the Fatsias look a bit yellow. I think you just have too much in too smaller place. Are they in Multipurpose compost?If you want to keep them in there just for this year I'd feed at least once a week and use something like miracle grow or a high nitrogen fertiliser.Long term I dont...

It has been a real problem everywhere this yr unfortunately.

Ah, relieved to hear mine are not the only ones, and that a sickly specimen may recover the next yr.We've had such wet weather here I'm not sure lack of water can be the whole issue. I wonder whether they thrive long-term in containers? I've always thought of them as an in-the-ground plant.

Squish and leave the rest to the ladybird grubs because those Ladybirds you have now will be laying yellow eggs at the moment and if they do the aphids will go.

Thanks all. I certainly wouldn't leave the container in a place that the dogs could get to it.

I have terrible blackfly on some eryngiums, but the broad beans about 5 metres away haven't been hit yet...

That looks like walnut leaf gall mite damage... Walnut Leaf Gall Mite | NatureSpot

I have the sawfly each year and just see it as plant ‘going over’. Luckily other plants disguise the damage (from afar).

When we have pots with bulbs in them the squirrels are the culprits.

The slug pellets won’t eradicate all munches - there’s always one that finds a gap, or was hiding under the plant.

We sprayed in early spring for diseases. But, unfortunately, it still happened. Well, I'll just wait until we harvest the crops

Lupins are legumes. The newly planted may not yet be innoculated with the necessary microbes and therefore not receiving the same nitrogen that the older established plants are capturing. I suggest that you foliar feed it, using rain water not chlorinated tap water .It may also still be under...

Never lost any abroad, opposite in fact having to control the weed. Here 2 year back I lost a very healthy plant 1m across. I put this down to the cold winter, but wonder now if it was the wet (despite it being very well drained). I now take 2-3 cuttings each year just in case. Fortunately I had...

I use copper rings around my beans, yes it works, but only to cut down the numbers. I suspect some must ignore and inconvenience/pain and others are either inside the ring or dig under them.

It looks like Botrytis blight which Oriental poppies can suffer from in wet summers. They can also suffer from downy mildew, I know Beth Chatto stopped selling them because of this.

Snails and slugs love Doom Bar in my beer traps. Brings a tear to my eye as I pour it into my jam jar trap.

Apparently there is some sort of disease which means the plants can't take up water as the stems get blocked. The plant looks fine and flourishing ... and then suddenly it just wilts.

Unfortunately, rabbits will have a go at many things initially, even if they then decide they don't like something, and subsequently leave it alone. There's not much you can do. For trees and shrubs, it's the caging around them until they get mature enough. For anything else, it's often trial...

Ah, I wonder if it is oak caterpillar defoliating my flowering cherry. The canopies of the two touch. It is the first yr I've had a problem.

No remnants of webbing that I can see. Your thoughts echo my own, that disease might have been transferred. I think I will copy your example and invest in a battery hedge trimmer. Thank you for your advice.