Re: perennials DIGEST V3 #223

Sharon,

could it be Japanese beetles?  They have been out at my house for about a week
and this year their favorite plants are the Buddleias (last year it was
Salix caprea and Gaura 'Dauphine' but not other gauras)


Lisa Flaum
Waterloo, south-west Illinios, USA
Min -10F Max 105F  Summer dry punctuated by floods, 
high humidity, unreliable snow cover, clay soil
Member NARGS, IBS, SRGC, AGS, AHS, RHS, APS, ACS (I like seed exchanges)


>I have Buddleia "Black Knight" which is about 3.5 feet tall now.  For
>several weeks something has been nibbling holes in the leaves leaving
>them quite lacy looking.  It seems to be upper leaves rather than lowere
>ones.  The first culprits that occured to me are slugs but periodic checks
>have reavealed none - and would they crawl up to the top to eat holes
>within the leaf rather than eating leaves closer to the ground and
>startin on the leaf edges?  In fact, there is no sign of anybody.
>So, what do you all think?  Who's eating my Buddleia and shoudl I do
>anything about it?
>

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