Ireland’s annual festival of flowers is on the horizon, with themes of environmental impact and climate change looming large
, that weekend in the Irish gardening year when we collectively convince ourselves that the sun shines in Ireland all year round and that picnics on the lawn dressed in boater hats and gingham sundresses are a good idea.
Nature doesn’t care that your carefully nurtured seedlings want to be outside – it’s still prepared to be brutal Alongside its 22 show gardens, 13 tiny postcard garden designs will also be on display at this year’s show, created by a variety of community groups from around the country Keep a watchful eye out for common pests and diseases that can cause damage this year and take appropriate measures if needed. Young seedlings and transplants, for example, need careful protection from slugs and snails while vine weevil damage can be organically controlled using nematodes applied this month .
They then quickly metamorphose into adult moths and lay their yellow eggs on any nearby host box plants, which is how this destructive pest so easily leapfrogs from garden to garden. Now widespread throughout Europe, it’s especially common in urban areas with plants at risk of infestation between March and October.It sounds like the very harsh pruning of your box plants was done to remove any overwintering larvae as well as dead growth caused by the caterpillars’ defoliation of the hedge.
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