Plant Pests

Identify common garden pests affecting your plants and discover organic and chemical control methods to protect your growing space.

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 cond...

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 diffi...

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...

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 t...

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 when it come...

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...

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...