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Originally Posted by susie123
Nice bee bum in no 6!
I'm envious - can't grow lilies as there seems to be lily beetle here and in my last garden which just wrecks them - though the beetles are quite pretty! I do have a couple of lilies in a pot which seem to be OK -bought the bulbs from Morrisons a few years ago and they seem to be immune but all others, expensive ones bought on the net, have succumbed.
And foxgloves are one of my all time favourites - but they never come up where I want them, having self seeded in the garden they're always in the wrong place. And if I transplant them they don't like it - grrr! So I put up with them among my veggies cos they're pretty!
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a couple of years ago i got lily beetle in the front garden ... it eat the lilys big time theres a picture on here somewhere ... anyway i bought some stuff bayer garden provado ultimate bug killer ...and the following year my lilies that were attacked grew again .. so that works ..
the foxgloves appeared from nowhere ..but theyve attracted the bees so ive left them .. well ive pulled one out but left the others ... lol