Comments on: How bright, shiny red ruins my moment of Zen like calm

By: HappyMouffetard

HappyMouffetard — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 18:45:48 +0000

Oh – I’m only just catching up on blogs after my holiday – what a shame you’ve found the pesky critters on your fritillaries too :(

Those species tulips are absolutely gorgeous.

By: Jan (ThanksFor2Day)

Jan (ThanksFor2Day) — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 15:36:43 +0000

Oh, and I didn’t comment on those tulips! I love them…haven’t seen either of them before. I need to look for them, they’re gorgeous!!

By: Jan (ThanksFor2Day)

Jan (ThanksFor2Day) — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 13:23:09 +0000

I smiled at your photo of those 2 creating even more lily beetles! I do love your fritillaria and hope they don’t get too many holes! I understand you having to be kind to those 2, though! Your garden sounds so peaceful and lovely. Have a wonderful day! Jan

By: Libby

Libby — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 08:17:52 +0000

I didn’t realise either that lily beetles like Fritillarias, I shall keep my eyes open for them!!

By: chaiselongue

chaiselongue — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 21:52:18 +0000

Oh dear, and everything in the garden sounded so lovely until then. At least you caught them!

By: jo

jo — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 20:29:23 +0000

I covet those lovely small tulips. Hopefully I will still be coveting them in August when they need ordering :-)

The evil weevil marauding already?
I was out at 4 am in the rain squashing snails and slugs. Now there is an additional daily/nightly task. Sigh.

My dicecup flowers haven’t even pushed through the soil yet. My J.Parkers order hasn’t been very succesful.
Only the freebies came good.

By: blueworld gardener

blueworld gardener — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 15:37:29 +0000

Ouch! That’s early in the year for Lilioceris lilii to be about too. I hate them with a passion, I really do. We’ve had to pot up all our lilies and overwinter them in the greenhouse to stop the beetly depredations, and now I wonder if they did for my purple snakeshead fritillarys too – I still have the white ones, but all the purple ones disappeared. Perhaps they don’t bother with the white flowers? Interesting …

By: Anna

Anna — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 21:04:31 +0000

I am most taken with ‘Little Beauty’. Those little red beetles are a big pest – I suppose we should be grateful that they are not green or brown but bright red. That plant looks a perfect cushion for bare tootsies :)

By: Victoria

Victoria — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 20:22:16 +0000

I’ve given up trying to grow lilies because of those little buggers. Squish a few for me!

By: Judith

Judith — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 16:10:09 +0000

What little horrors those beetles are. We see all kind of beetles here only thing is we are not sure if they are good or bad for our garden.
The tulips are lovely and i love the frittillia but never had much success at growing them.