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Impatiens - Au Revoir or Goodbye?
On Sat, 06 Aug 2011 21:10:25 +0100, Jake Nospam@invalid wrote:
On Sat, 06 Aug 2011 16:58:25 +0100, Pam Moore wrote: On Sat, 06 Aug 2011 11:55:01 +0100, Jake Nospam@invalid wrote: Having spent much of yesterday digging up all my impatiens, which have succumbed to that fungus this year, and then buying up any remaining decent bedding in the local garden centre to fill the more visible gaps, it was heartening to read in Amateur Gardening today a prediction that impatiens "could die out" within five years. Seems that T&M are researching alternatives "in case". I've got something in my head that I've read somewhere that other plants are also possibly susceptible to this "downy mildew" fungus and shouldn't be planted where impatiens have been affected. But I can't remember where I read this and what plants were mentioned. Does this ring a bell with anyone else? I wonder if there is something in the fact that of late the regular Amateur Gardening emails have stopped and the publishers have started sending me Angling Times ones instead? Very interesting Jake, as I have just been digging up all of mine and apologising to 3 friends to whom I gave some plants; T&M mail order. This is the first year I have grown impatiens since the problem they had, which must be at least 4 years ago? I shall email T&M. Parkers have just refunded some money for some inferior plants about which I comlained. Pam in Bristol The virus has been around for some time - last year a lot of people I know had impatiens affected but I was lucky. I don't know whether there is a case against the supplier though I have a feeling that if the fungus was "imported" with plants, it reached me via T&M "Accent Mixed" plug plants. I say this merely because other impatiens that are in wall planters or baskets well away from any of the Accent plants (and which were grown on separately) are, as yet, unaffected. But I've lost about 800 plants and now have to think about what I'll plant in their place next year. Hence my concern about other plants which may be susceptible. I have some bedding dahlias planted near the affected impatiens which also look decidedly sick (the dahlias that is) whilst others from the same batch growing elsewhere are healthy. I'm told there was a gloomy article about the problem in the Telegraph gardening supplement yesterday, with a comment from a chap from T&M. My friend will read it to me, and after that I'm going to email T&M again and ask them to rethink their refund. Jake have you contacted them? Pam in Bristol |
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Impatiens - Au Revoir or Goodbye?
On Sun, 14 Aug 2011 09:33:41 +0100, Pam Moore
wrote: pruned I'm told there was a gloomy article about the problem in the Telegraph gardening supplement yesterday, with a comment from a chap from T&M. My friend will read it to me, and after that I'm going to email T&M again and ask them to rethink their refund. Jake have you contacted them? Pam in Bristol I don't read the Telegraph but I doubt that the T&M chap will say anything in the "our fault" line. I did email them, deliberately not asking for a refund but pointing out the co-incidences in my case - all of a particular variety affected but only those plants of other varieties that were planted close to my suspected culprit and asking for comments. Fairly curt response with a "factsheet" largely lifted from the RHS web site and rebranded. I won't comment more at this stage as I'm trying to find a bit more info about how this fungus spreads. Cheers Jake ============================================== Gardening at the dry end (east) of Swansea Bay in between reading anything by JRR Tolkien. www.rivendell.org.uk |
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Impatiens - Au Revoir or Goodbye?
On Aug 14, 12:31*pm, Jake Nospam@invalid wrote:
On Sun, 14 Aug 2011 09:33:41 +0100, Pam wrote: pruned I'm told there was a gloomy article about the problem in the Telegraph gardening supplement yesterday, with a comment from a chap from T&M. My friend will read it to me, and after that I'm going to email T&M again and ask them to rethink their refund. Jake have you contacted them? Pam in Bristol I don't read the Telegraph but I doubt that the T&M chap will say anything in the "our fault" line. I did email them, deliberately not asking for a refund but pointing out the co-incidences in my case - all of a particular variety affected but only those *plants of other varieties that were planted close to my suspected culprit and asking for comments. Fairly curt response with a "factsheet" largely lifted from the RHS web site and rebranded. I won't comment more at this stage as I'm trying to find a bit more info about how this fungus spreads. Cheers Jake ============================================== Gardening at the dry end (east) of Swansea Bay in between reading anything by JRR Tolkien. www.rivendell.org.uk From what I read it isonly Impatiens walleriana and those vaeieties having it in their parentage that are affected |
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