busy lizzies

[fatdancer]

why have all my busy lizzies died and rotted away as have many other gardens around...weve had much rain like everyone i suppose but no waterlogging...is it pests or just the rubbish summer and lack of sunshine

[gucciman]

mine have gone the same way for the past 2 seasons, at first i suspected a disease but now i do think its just the rotten weather.

[YvonneM]

Search around in the compost where they are growing it could be that you have the dreaded root weevil that lives on the root systems. It is a fat white grub that I squash and then I dispose of the compost in the wheelie bin as you can never be sure of findind them all
Picture of it here
http://www.fruitgateway.co.uk/Pubs/file.asp?ID =333

[vivandorron]

I think gucciman has given the correct answer.

Furthermore, I read somewhere or other (it may have been in answerbank) that many other gardeners (myself included) have had poor results this year........Ron

[shylock73]

I keep my b/l`s in a hanging basket in the greenhouse in windy conditions and hang them out on sunnier days and they are georgeous. So it`s all down to this crappy winds and rain we`re having lately.

[vivandorron]

I agree shylock...it's the wind and rain.

[fatdancer]

thanks for your help pray for better weather next summer or perhaps choose alternative bedding

[madboutcats]

My poor pansies that id grown from seed drown in all that rain, its been a very poor summer for flowers, and i too lost busy lizzies to the weather a few years ago.