honey suckle

honey suckle

庭の紹介

 夫婦で庭づくりを福岡の郊外で2003年に始めました. 赤土むきだしの斜面にまず階段や園路をつくって芝をはり、果樹やバラ、ハーブなどを植えました.
 2010年にイギリスの有名なガーデンの、シシングハースト、モティスフォントアビー、ヒドコートマナーなどを回り、その素晴らしさに圧倒され、それから自分たちで小さくても素晴らしい庭をめざして庭づくりをつづけています.



10/17/2020

INSECT PEST DAMAGE (害虫の被害)

 

Sometimes we have severe pest damages. 

Echium candicans bore wonderful flowers last April in the blue border. 

This plant is perennial and lives for several years. 

I cut flower spikes after flowering in June, and it looks vigorous in summer. 

However, it suddenly got weak and died in September, 

and its cause became clear; pest!

Cambium of the base of its trunk was circumferentially eaten by some pest. 

I couldn't find the pest in it. 


ひどい害虫の被害がときどきあります.

四月にはブルーボーダー花壇でエキウムカンディカンスが素晴らしく咲きました.

この植物は多年草で数年育ちます.

六月に花が終わったあと花穂を切り、夏の間は元気でした.

でも、九月に突然弱って枯れてしまい、

原因は害虫と判明!

幹の下のほうで形成層が全周食べられていました.

そのなかに昆虫は見つかりませんでした.


April 2020
July 2020
October 2020


So, I dug it out and planted a young plant which I had grown in a pot. 

そこで、それは掘り出して、鉢で育てていた苗を植えました.

A young plant in a pot
I plant it in the same place.
The blue border on both side of the arbour seat
屋根付きベンチの両側の青のボーダー花壇



Glory bush suddenly changed its leaves red in September. 
I already experienced this once, 
and I easily found the signs of pest in its large branches again. 
There are small intact stems with green leaves left, 
and it will grow and bear much flowers again. 

九月に突然ノボタンの葉が赤くなりました.
一度経験していたので、大きな枝にまた害虫のしるしがあるのをすぐ見つけました.
小さい枯れずにすんだ枝が残っているので
また大きくなってたくさん花を咲かせてくれるでしょう.

Beautiful purple flowers with red leaves of the dying large branches.
美しい紫の花と赤い葉っぱの枯れつつある大きな枝

Most of the leaves and flowers have fallen. 
葉と花はほとんど散ってしまった

Signs of pest
害虫のしるし
A live small branch with green leaves and purple flowers. 
緑の葉と紫の花のついた生きている小さな枝



4 comments:

  1. Dear Poirot
    It is always sad to find that a plant has been injured or killed by a pest or disease. I have had to remove several of my fuchsias as they had fuchsia rust and suddenly lost all their leaves.
    It is good that you had some plants to replace them with. I hope your new plants do well.
    Best wishes
    Ellie

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    1. Thank you Ellie.
      Pest lives with us, and it is not inevitable.

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  2. That was such a beautiful big plant and so such a shame to lose it to a pest. It was good you had a cutting you could replace it with even if it will take a while to grow as big.
    This alas is one of the problems we gardeners have to face, the dreaded pest attacking a plant and only seeing the problem when it's too late.

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    1. Thank you Dee.
      I think I could find it earlier.
      But it was so hot and humid in summer in our area, and I couldn't check plants in detail...

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