I bought a lovely Lobelia "Queen Victoria " last weekend. It has a beautiful deep red stem or should I say had. Something is striping the outer red layer from the stem. Has anyone any ideas what might be doing this?
I had a red stemed lobelia in my pond. Heaven knows how they managed to crawl across the water from the edge (along the bottom and up?). The stems were a good 7/8 inches away from the side and sitting in two incheses of water, but slugs still managed to get onto it and have a field day with It. Decimated. Never attempted to grow it again. Convinced slugs must have parachuted in.
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Slugs are very fond of lobelias. Can you see any slime trails about
In the sticks near Peterborough
Slugs or snails.
You will have to grow it with a moat of water around it. It looks lovely when it on sale, but nobody will tell you how much slugs and snails love it.
I had a red stemed lobelia in my pond. Heaven knows how they managed to crawl across the water from the edge (along the bottom and up?). The stems were a good 7/8 inches away from the side and sitting in two incheses of water, but slugs still managed to get onto it and have a field day with It. Decimated. Never attempted to grow it again. Convinced slugs must have parachuted in.
I had one as well and slugs made a meal of it so never again for me.