Aquilegia frustration.

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    It's actually four years since ours started dying :sad:

    We lost somewhere between 4,000 and 6,000 Aquilegias :cry3: (never really got around to counting them).

    These were some of them. All gone now! :sad:

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    This was a thread that I started seven years ago - with permission of Carrie Thomas who held the National Collection. We were in touch with each other when the disease hit but neither of us has been able to do anything about it.

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      Wow! What a shame, such a beautiful plant! Thanks for the information
       
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        I noticed last year that some of my Aquilegias had brown, blotchy leaves but they still flowered. I don't think this is downy mildew, having looked at the pics posted here, but I'm not sure what it is. I noticed that my Clematis also developed brown, blotchy leaves. I thought it was probably down to something I was not doing rather than disease.

        It is such a shame about the Aqilegias, they are such lovely plants and so good for Bees:sad:. Maybe someone will find a cure or breed mildew resistant plants.
         
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          I don't think that would be downy mildew. The leaves tend to get a whitish coating and then shrivel.

          Brown blotchiness could be to do with the climatic conditions.
           
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            Yes, I looked at pics of the mildew and mine are not the same. Also, the plants didn't die. The Aqilegia were here when I moved in and in previous years have looked ok, lots of nice green leaves. I didn't think about climate. What kind of climatic conditions could be responsible?
             
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              As with a lot of plants, they are susceptible to windburn, too dry and too wet conditions. Take your pick :dunno:
               
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