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I've a well established patch of one of the tall persicarias, one end is perfectly OK the other end has suffered damage. I don't use weedkillers and it's nowhere that it could be affected by anyone else's. It was fairly weed covered until today. The weeds were healthy.
Near by I have another species of persicaria, also affected. But lots of others that look fine
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something pee'ing on it in the night?
I wondered about that Cloggie. Must be a new pee-er to the garden, never had anything like that before.
I think this one will survive it, not so sure about the new one.
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In the sticks near Peterborough
Have you got a fence down?
We're open to the world Cloggie. We have muntjac, occasional Roe, badger, fox, other people's cats, rats and elephants
In the sticks near Peterborough
In my experience it's the elephants wot dunnit!!!
I wouldn't be at all surprised madpenguin
In the sticks near Peterborough
You've never got a Unicorn!?
A peacock wandered through once.
In the sticks near Peterborough
I've been pondering over this while I cleaned the bathroom ........ could it just have been nipped by frost/cold wind ...... I know they're hardy but new foliage of any plant can be a bit susceptible to the cold, and the ones I've seen do go brown in the winter ... and that end of the patch might just have caught a very chilly wind nipping across the East Anglian flatlands direct from the Urals.
Just a thought
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Looks like frost damage to me. I had loads of this round my pond in the old garden and one spring it was all but wiped out by sudden chilly blasts form Siberia. Went all brown and nasty like that.
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