Plant Pests...
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Avoiding Botrytis: Fungal Infection
Botrytis is a depressingly common fungus that affects a wide range of plants, particularly in the spring and autumn, since it thrives best in cool, damp conditions...
Dealing With Plant Viruses
Just like people, plants can get viruses too – and viral diseases are probably the hardest of all garden problems to diagnose, and certainly the most difficult to...
Encouraging the Gardener's Allies
As any gardener knows, there’s an almost endless line of insects and other pests ready to take a bite out of our treasured plants – but what we can often forget is...
Plant-eating Caterpillars
Butterflies and their relatives, the moths, are probably the most liked and certainly one of the most easily recognised of all the world’s insects. While the adults...
Recognising the Signs of Underground Pests
It’s hard enough keeping on top of the vast numbers of pests that you can see waiting to eat the leaves, stems and flowers of your plants, but...
Signs of Leaf and Stem Pests
From aphids sucking the sap to caterpillars and slugs voraciously chewing their way through the foliage, the summer garden teems with a huge variety of life that...
Vulnerable Plants in Your Garden
In the natural world, if there’s a potential free meal going begging, something will always come along to take up the offer. The bottom line is, if it can be eaten,...
