What is eating my climbing hydrangea?

Discussion in 'Pests, Diseases and Cures' started by Nic, Sep 25, 2006.

  1. Nic

    Nic Apprentice Gardener

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    I planted a climbing hydrangea (dont know the proper name but its the very common one with big white flowers) against a very shady wall in early summer. it did really well, grew lots! But for the past month or so something has been nibbling at the leaves. Also a lot of un-nibbled leaves have been going brown and curling.
    It gets watered and fed well and I cannot see anything at all on the leaves, no greenfly, no caterpillars etc. I am a bit of a gardening novice so am not sure if it is something blindingly obvious.
    Anyone got any ideas what it could be and what I could do to help it? I did spray it with standard kill-all bug spray to no effect.
    Thanks
    nicola
     
  2. walnut

    walnut Gardener

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    Nic hydrangea petiolarisis is the climbing hydrangea I had exactly the same problem i think if you go out at night with a torch you will find the culprit is vine weevils
     
  3. Nic

    Nic Apprentice Gardener

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    Aha! thank you! I will do some detective work tonight
    nicola
     
  4. Royster

    Royster Gardener

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    Please let us know how you get on Nicola! Any pics are most welcome albeit I am still struggling with the pic thing.

    Kind regards
    Roy
     
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