Janet Tweedy wrote:
In article , Ian B
writes
Some weeks ago as part of my minor garden "makeover" I planted an
Ajuga reptans "burgundy glow". It soon started to flower. Now it
appears to be dying. Most of the leaves are brown and dead, and the
stems back to the centre. There's one flower spike still standing
up, but looking sickly; the others have fallen over.

It had compost and chicken poo when planted, it's had plenty of
water, and the plants around it all appear to be fine. Any ideas
what could be wrong? Was it just a duff plant perhaps?

The only chemical that may have been near it was Bayer Multirose
fungicide I sprayed on a nearby rose bush. Could that have harmed it?

Try lifting it out of the ground, if it pulls up easily with no roots
then it's got the dreaded vine weevil that often make a bee line for
Heucheras, ajuga (sometimes) primulas and er , well most stuff really.

Well today it was basically dead; still some pale green but evreything flat
and dying, so I dug it up. The roots appear intact. The only thing I could
find of interest was a number of what appear to be eggs; white, like little
pearls about 3mm across. I thought they were little stones at first until I
squidged one. I couldn't find anything crawlng around in the roots or plant
itself other than an earthworm and one orange thread-like sort of
miliipede-looking creature.

But anyway the roots seemed fine and the compost was moist. But the whole
top of the plant is dead, basically.

Any more ideas, Janet or anyone?


Ian