Pests, Diseases and Cures

Oh Bother Jenny No overwintered plant remains and spraying with Bordeaux mixture next year then

Hello, Been fighting slugs

Ah, that would explain why the first plant has now got new healthy looking fruit on it after I took all the others off a few weeks ago.Off out to the greenhouse now to cut all the rest off ETA - now done, here's hoping for lots more fruit soon

Unfortunately fileyboy hes laid his precious lawn now so wont have any interest in digging it all upOur local site does take asbestos as well it turns out which is infuriating

Put the brown end in the soil, the green end above it, and you're in with a much better chance.

Not had it on our Bay for a few years. We scrounged leaves for cooking from a neighbour's Bay after spraying. Scale Insects are normally the worst pest on it.

I've been very lucky then. The only fungal problems I've had have been on an Ornithogalum where the slugs munched it - major fungal issues spread outwards and I ended up slicing the foliage off.But yes - grow more from seed as it increases your choice no end! And having been caught out by...

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I'm now getting birds pulling the flowers off my courgette plants!

I was leaving that one till last,..... grim reaper

Two of my three new honeysuckles had this same problem. They were both planted in large pots. For both I did the same thing at first: I plucked off every affected leaf, gave it a spray of anti fungicide and I started feeding regularly with a liquid feed every two weeks. On one, this did the...

I went round and had a look this morning, nothing obvious Could be malicious fairies.Ta for the tea Dan Lovely Garden you'm got there

I don't know

Just been out in the pouring rain, can report that the rain does not pour off the shed onto the roots, it just kind of drips down the side onto the concrete slabs the shed is laid on..so the area is receiving water but not more than it would be in a normal rain shower...the water is not focused...

Finger and thumb.

Ants will protect the aphids from predators and move them around. If you provide the ants with an alternative food source (say some sugar syrup in a bottle cap lodged in the runner bean foliage) the ants will remove the aphids for you. They see them as a competitor for their new food source.

Good luck! Hope you manage to control them!

If it was hailstones I would have expected more damage not only on the Buddleia but on other plants, so I suggest an inspection of the underneath of leaves just to make sure there are no pests lurking. My shed is a lot tougher than your Buddleia, it will survive with a new coat of paint!

Well the ID has got me stumped...all the suggestions I would have made relate to evergreens. I'm pretty certain though that whatever it is it's suffering from either bacterial canker or fireblight, which probably entered by the wound at the top of the trunk. Being a lovely-shaped standard like...