Pests, Diseases and Cures

It does look awful, but I think if you cut it down now you may not get any flowers next year.

Blackbirds and thrushes eat slugs. But not 200 at a sitting.

Kinda more free fall. No bungee involved.

That's very interesting. Thank you

I love a challenge

I'd also add as a candidate some white flowering rugosa roses, they don't mind salty environments and are tough as anything and create nice hedges that can be trimmed if needed, after flowering

But if we ever need to park a car on the lawn, we’re ready.

Excellent, Thanks for the link.

If its spider mite they will be visible on the underside of the leaves, but unless you have very good eyesight they can be difficult to see. Use a hand lens if you have one.It doesn't look too bad to me.Try to keep a humid atmosphere.

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