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Box blight
://apps.rhs.org.uk/advicesearch/profile.aspx?pid=132  phytophthora has been a problem with conifers, esp junipers down here. but, as dove says, conifers suffer browning for many reasons.  red spider, a type of, affects picea Albertiana Conica, for example, and although the effects are seen in summer by Pots Galore
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24/12/2012 22:52:42
by Verdun
Roses Offer
soak in a bucket of water for a few hrs first. If you put them in pots straight awa get in touch with thompson & morgan. It wouldn't be the first time they sent bare roots that are dead! (victoria plum twice, tree peoni, peach infested with spider mite by granville-harper
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06/03/2013 23:14:46
by Woodgreen wonderboy
And Finally, Unidentified shrub 3
. If grown indoors the two-spotted spider mite can be a problem. Very cold temperatures and frost can damage, or even kill, the plant.   Yours looks to be very much alive but perhaps in need of a little TLC I don't think I've ever seen a pittosprum in flower by KathrynJane
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31/05/2013 23:43:08
by Jcblue
Talkback: Leafcutter bees
interesting  Have you ever tried to photograph a Leaf Cutter Bee? They don't half move fast Pam x I bought one of those insect homes ages ago which nothing except spiders went near for a couple of years (much to my horror) but now ever year the leaf cutter by tessa1958
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29/07/2012 07:31:27
by curlyone
Talkback: My garden shed
wormicide and the wormery was out. I believe there are at least two barbecues in there, various rakes for a lawn that disappeared years ago, some rather nice pots, a large colony of small spiders and a small colony of large ones. If I could get in there I by Rhoda Dendron
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28/11/2011 18:30:40
by Pamela
Talkback: Growing orange trees
Ha-Ha. Mealy bug is about the only thing from which we (well I mean a lemon, an orange, a kaffir lime & a calamondin) haven't suffered. Red spider & scale by the bucket load,but not mealy bug (yet).Fingers remain tightly crossed.But even if they don by Kate Bradbury
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28/11/2011 18:43:09
by Kate Bradbury
Talkback: Leaf scorch
of any spiders that have set up home there. They get put out into the garden too. There is a little wind damage on the beautiful mimosa like leaves of my Persian Silk Tree (Albitzia jubillissima) but nothing that looks like scorch marks on anything. I by Stonehenge
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28/11/2011 18:44:04
by Pippa
Biggest Aspidistra ???
classy! We grew a lot of them in a public garden I used to work in. We had to keep them under a bench in one of the glass houses to prevent too much sun from getting to them. Emma gardenersworld.com team I've found mine surprisingly prone to red spider by jean riley
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19/07/2012 15:48:33
by Maud is in the garden
Cucumbers
 them regularly,mist the plants to stop red spider mites getting a hold and lets hope for some good weather Pam LL x   Pam -help-I am growing Marketmore in the greenhouse-the seeds courtesy of Dean-packet says outdoor does it matter? We found out the hard way by Rosa carriola
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19/03/2013 23:24:04
by Rosa carriola
begonia offer
.Clarkia-elegans double delight;               14. Aster-spider chrysanthemum mixed;   16.Shasta daisy- silver princess;        21.Cosmos- Purity;       22. Hollyhock- Giant Single Mixed;           23.Cosmos-Polidor Mixed;     24.Verbascum-Phoeniceum mixed by joyce mannell
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27/03/2013 09:47:03
by Lyn