Pests, Diseases and Cures

While several pesticides are available to kill earwigs, they are not required, and you can control them without toxic and potentially hazardous chemicals.Insert a shallow, clean can -- such as a cat food or tuna can -- into the ground so the lip of the can is even with the soil level. Fill the...

Thanks Verdun ... [another late reply .. soz - not getting here much these days .. life getting in the way ... lol]. I didn't really understand the mulch concept per se actually but you've explained it for this particular problem I had and I've now read up on it too so understand it more.

Great news ... NO feeding only water , and have a think about insulation for the pot over winter.... these jobs never end .... thanks for letting us all know ...

Hi all, Thank you all for the responses and @pete , thank you for the files. I took samples to the garden centre and left embarrassingly convinced that they were indeed old flowers. I'll put it down to a learning experience. I didn't realise that the flowers and buds came and went so quickly....

Hi Mike. I think you could be right about close confinement as this year I planted geums around the base and everything looks a bit crowded. The magellanica name sounds familiar.

Looks like sunscorch to me as well, specially if the leaves in direct contact with the sun are suffering and the other leaves -deeper inside the shrub- remain dark green.Make sure that it is getting morning sun (say until 10-11am) and afternoon and evening shade; dappled sun; or bright full...

Moisture. Watering. Get in there and cut away all sickly whimp growth. Don't feed.

In June 2019, the 25-year-old plant first suffered failures on a few branches: the leaves of individual branches died completely within a few days and dried up on the tree. The cross-section of the wood shows no discolorations that could indicate a fungal infection. The rest of the tree is...

Creepy crawlies are part of gardening, I think we all have ones we dislike, but ants do no real damage to the plants intentionally.They loosen the soil around roots, and they "farm" aphids, but they do not attack plants in general.I doubt whatever you used in the garden would actually wipe...

Wow. knock wood, never got that on mine.

Well I tend to think that they are the biggest pest on brassicas. Apart from white fly.

Cheers Pete, a lesson learned.

My electric fence was down for a few days because the tree felling ripped it up and a raccoon took advantage of the breach and left deposits for me to discover and a very muddy bird bath. I didn't have any official animal deterrent sprays on hand so I grabbed a spray can of concentrated room...

Thanks Marley Farley I will give the peppermint oil a try

Oh what a lovely sight

Thank you for your reply, fingers crossed your right and the heat is to blame, it’s been extremely hot here recently.Hopefully a little bit TLC will do them some goodXx

Is it in soil. I would have thought MPC. All my indoor plants are in it. I would never use soil indoors.

I agree with everyone else, normally a food or nesting material thing, probably not any help to you but sparrows are on the rspb red list (red is the highest conservation priority, with species needing urgent action.) So you and your bamboo are doing a great job, just hope they don't do much damage.

Thanks for that. I'm sure we can sort something out. My old boss is on his way over with something tells me is "Incesticide Soap"! Can't wait!

Here are some pictures for you. This part of the hedge is not that severe, but is bad enough for you to see the changes in the leaf shape I mentioned above.