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wot dunnit

I've a well established patch of one of the tall persicarias, one end is perfectly OK the other end has suffered damage. I don't use weedkillers and it's nowhere that it could be affected by anyone else's. It was fairly weed covered until today. The weeds were healthy.

Near by I have another species of persicaria, also affected. But lots of others that look fine

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In the sticks near Peterborough
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  • CloggieCloggie Posts: 1,457

    something pee'ing on it in the night?

  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445

    I wondered about that Cloggie. Must be a new pee-er to the garden, never had anything like that before.

    I think this one will survive it, not so sure about the new one.

    Last edited: 23 April 2017 22:06:24



    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • CloggieCloggie Posts: 1,457

    Have you got a fence down?

  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445

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    We're open to the world Cloggie. We have muntjac, occasional Roe, badger, fox, other people's cats, rats and elephants



    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • madpenguinmadpenguin Posts: 2,543

    In my experience it's the elephants wot dunnit!!!

    “Every day is ordinary, until it isn't.” - Bernard Cornwell-Death of Kings
  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445

    I wouldn't be at all surprised madpenguin image



    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    nutcutlet says:

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    We're open to the world Cloggie. We have muntjac, occasional Roe, badger, fox, other people's cats, rats and elephants

    See original post

     You've never got a Unicorn!?

    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445

    image Still waiting for one to turn up Lyn

    A peacock wandered through once.



    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,138

    I've been pondering over this while I cleaned the bathroom ........ could it just have been nipped by frost/cold wind ...... I know they're hardy but new foliage of any plant can be a bit susceptible to the cold, and the ones I've seen do go brown in the winter ... and that end of the patch might just have caught a very chilly wind nipping across the East Anglian flatlands direct from the Urals.

    Just a thought image


    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,064

    Looks like frost damage to me.  I had loads of this round my pond in the old garden and one spring it was all but wiped out by sudden chilly blasts form Siberia.   Went all brown and nasty like that.

    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
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