On Mon, 1 Jun 2009, Charlie Pridham wrote
In article ,
says...
I've just uploaded some garden photos at
http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/mehitabel.snaps

It's a very ordinary South London back garden, nothing exotic and full
of mistakes, but we are fond of it and if the wind weren't blowing quite
so hard I'd be out there now reading the paper, sniffing the
extraordinarily fragrant climbing hydrangeas and listening to the mad
birds.

There's another album there too called 'what's wrong? and I would be
extremely grateful if someone could give me a hint as to what might be
going wrong here - I wondered if it was too much hard water, but you've
all reassured me on that. On various plants, unrelated to each other as
far as I know, we're getting a kind of leaf shrivelling - the hollyhocks
are worst, but the heuchera and small fuchsia are also bad, and it
affects some pelargoniums and some roses as well. I've attached some
photos from August of last year where the roses were affected, though as
they've come back unaffected as yet this year, I don't know whether it's
all related or not.

There's also a problem with some roses where something is nibbling at
the leaf stem and breaking it off, but I can't see anything and they
have been well and truly sprayed.


Most of the shiveling in your whats wrong pictures has been caused by sap
sucking insects, which have probably been and gone, wide range of choice
but aphids are usually near the top of the list .
as for the stems being chewed my first reaction was "Damage what damage"
there will be plently of people here would be glad of such healthy
looking roses (me included) I normally let nature take its course but you
can of course spray but that is best carried out before the damage
occures

Thanks, Charlie. I hope it wasn't the Roseclear as it seems to be a
useful all-round product, and we aren't using much, if any, at the
moment - it was the April wave of greenfly that needed some combating,
especially as all the ladybirds that squatted in our house over winter
(nearly all the windows had a little colony) seem to have gone off
elsewhere without doing their bread-and-butter duty.

As for being glad of such healthy roses, thank you - but each one is so
different and so gorgeous I resent every single attack! Perhaps I
should just relax a bit....

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Kate B

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