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plant (schefflera). Hello Baileyana, As meiow and jeffd say, it's a variegated umbrella plant (Schefflera arboricola). These are prone to scale insects, which cause the plants to be covered in a sticky film, whilst weakening them. Schefflera can also

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at them through a magnifying glass - are you sure they're not scale insect? Alina-not drought or wind-I have put an existing containerised one in the vacant spot as a temporary measure Just been to look at the white spots they are like specks of cotton

persimilis on to your plants. Alternatively, use sprays containing, fatty acids or plant oils.houseplants, greenhouse plants, also outdoors on fuchsias, runner beans, busy lizzies, grape vinesall year roundMore common garden pestsMealybugsScale insectsWhiteflyThrips

of the plant, attracting black sooty mould, which inhibits photosynthesis and deprives the plant of energy.Young tender growth is vulnerable to aphid attack. These tiny insects (1mm-7mm long) are usually green or black and breed fast, smothering the plant

't fruit (& moving them outside in the spring/summer should certainly help them to do so) the scent from the flowers is enough to make the effort of helping them survive worthwhile. THat is SO sad! I spent years washing scale insects of our bay tree

! The fruit if anything may not come to much as the original stock was unknown My point is that i've found them very forgiving  ..,  much light & keep scale insect @' bay with mild soap & a toothbrush ( cover the soil in pot from the cleaning solution ! )  I

.  Theresa    Fungus growth ? It could be scale insect ( lots of em ) - these are releasing their egg sacs at the mo and kinda look like small fungus growths. They do tend to mass at the base. Just remove them using water and cotton wool. And, if the tree

started trying to cram them into the potting shed instead).And it was fascinating to see just what the trends were - I saw hordes of scale insects and plenty of powdery mildew. There were also a worrying number of yellowed raspberry leaves - some caused