If you grow lilies or fritiillaries you will have this bright lacquered red beetle pest. I first saw lily beetles in my garden about 2014. They were more a curiosity, and after I found and killed the two of them, there was no sign the rest of the year. From then I would occasionally come across them doing no particular damage and delete them on sight.
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The talk on Hellebores and Friends on Tuesday, 23rd October by Dr Julian Sutton was excellent. While there are numerous cultivars of hellebores it was good to learn more about some splendid species and their role in hybridization. I grow a few species and they help me welcome spring with cheerful anticipation. I watch H. x ericsmithii stir into action [...]
On Wednesday morning 12th September thirty members of Foxrock Garden Club met bright and early for the final garden visit of the 2018 season. We set off for Co. Wicklow on a lovely Autumn morning to visit the gardens of two well known gardeners namely Jimi Blake of Hunting Brook near Blessington and T.J. Maher [...]
32 members took this wonderful trip. We stayed centrally in Brighton and were expertly driven to our various destinations by our ever kind and courteous Graeme. There were two main attractions, the first visited by us being Great Dixter House (mainly designed by Lutyens) and the Gardens, designed by Lutyens and later by the late [...]
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Sean Heffernan, the head gardener at Mount Usher welcomed a group of Club Members on Thursday on our October visit to see the wonderful Autumn Colour. The morning dawned bright and sunny. There are numerous “Champion Trees” to be seen here, from all corners of the world. Sean brought his “garden bible” with [...]
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Emer had a very successful plant sale in June and as a result of this and of a further very generous donation we now have another wooden bench to match the existing one. There has been plenty of colour but drought and wind have been problems. Particularly good were verbena bonariensis with kalamgrostis karl foerster, [...]