"Sacha" wrote in message
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On 2009-07-14 18:02:14 +0100, "Ivan" said:


As I am a relative newcomer to gardening I hope someone here may be to
help me with a couple of problems.
My young grand daughter has been telling me that 'the honey bees are in
trouble', therefore we have to do our bit to try and encourage as many of
them into our gardens as we can.
Fair enough I saw on the telly that bees are particularly attracted to
honeysuckle and lavender plants, so I went to our local garden centre and
purchased a 'Lonicera americana' honeysuckle which I was informed was
particularly good, at the time I did notice that a couple of the leaves
looked a little suspect (as in photo) but thought that once I got it into
some decent soil with a couple of handfuls of bonemeal (as seen on TV)
everything would be OK, however whilst it still continues to grow apace
the leaves still look far from healthy, whilst the stems in places appear
to have a greyish coating.
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Also a lavender that I purchased at the same time started off wonderfully
but that too now appears to be on the wane with some of the heads now
beginning to turn a brownish colour.. Any help will be greatly
appreciated, below is a link to a couple of photos of both the
honeysuckle and the lavender plant.
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TIA Ivan
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http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/Anth230542/HonLavr?authkey=Gv1sRgCPKH-i75Yv4gwE&feat=directlink
or
http://tinyurl.com/lwnrs6



I'd take both straight back to the place you bought them from.
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Sacha

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Oh dear, that sounds ominous?