When you are growing Lupins, most people use seeds to propagate, but as an alternative method, you can successfully take basal cuttings as well. The advantage of using cuttings/division is that the resulting plant you achieve will be genetically identical to the parent plant from which you took the cutting and when you sow seeds this is not always the case. It is also lots of fun and fairly easy to do, even if you…
Rust is one of the most common fungal diseases for any garden plant. Whether you have vegetables, fruit, grasses, herbaceous plants, trees, or shrubs, they are susceptible to rust, especially roses. Rust is often very unsightly and typically reduces plant health. In the most extreme cases, they can kill your plant, but this is fairly rare. Rust is a kind of fungal disease and the most commonly affects the leaves on your plant, however, occasionally…
The Peony is a beautiful and stunning garden plant but it is particularly finicky about the growing conditions it receives. It needs the sun with a little bit of chill, it doesn’t want to be buried too deeply in the ground, and if you don’t give it the perfect growing conditions, you won’t get the perfect flowers. Sometimes people who grow Peonies in their garden don’t get any flower buds or flowers at all, and…
Peonies are the perfect plants for people who are busy because they don’t need a lot of attention and they live for many years with very little maintenance. However, there might come a time when for the sake of space or simply to help out a mature plant you need to divide and move your Peony. If your Peony is too large for the position in which it was originally planted, you simply want to…
Peony wilt caused by Botrytis paeoniae If you have problems with your Peony leaves, you’ve noticed they’re wilting and the buds are dying prior to opening up to display the stunning flowers they are well known for, it’s most likely Peony wilt. This is a fungal infection caused by a disease called Botrytis paeoniae. This is an infection that targets the leaves and stems of Peonies. It’s a fungal infection that’s very closely related to…
