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what disease or pest is this?

Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2018 2:07 pm
by marlonbrando
Hi
New to the forum and hoping you could help me out.

Set up a Flower tower in the summer with lovely little flowers.But just over four days most of the leaves have fallen away and I can see bare twigs,still green. The plants nearby are fine.
Have used a bug spray at least three times this season and eggshells for the snails.

Can you tell me if this is a pest or a disease and if I can still sav them some way.

Two pics attached. Thank you and Regards.

Re: what disease or pest is this?

Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2018 12:36 pm
by JONA
They look like Impatiens...Bizzie Lizzies.
Over here we have suffered for a couple of years with Downey mildew disease on these lovely little plants, often causing complete death to whole beds of plants. For a while they went completely out of fashion ...but new vars are much more resistant to the problem apparently.