Category: Snails, Deer and other Pests

Trumpet major or Lent Lily

Photo taken February 2019 Ware Church Cemetery, gloucester, virginia these are growing under ivy in a ravine area to the woods for decades and possibly centuries as Ware Church parish dates to 1690.  So many of the fields here in Gloucester…

Pink Perianths

Pink perianths are still as rare as hen’s teeth. John Reed has made a few standard P-P daffodils and Brian Duncan made Pink Perry although outside of N.Ireland it usually comes with a yellow perianth. Both Bob Spott’s and I…

Washing!

Dear All, It’s funny the things you find on the washing line, but I have a great deal of trouble with slugs which eat anything I put on the ground so this works a treat post lifting, just for a…

diseases and pests

Friends, When digging bulbs recently, I came upon several bulbs that look like the attached photo.  The central basal plate looks sort of like a cork that has been partially put back into the bottle. Does anyone know what causes…