6 thoughts on “Help requested please, Christina”

  1. Excessive rain is it, probably causing rust and mosaic virus.
    The prognostication is not good! Especially if it keeps raining. Very late here will check my texts tomorrow am and post further if anything can be done for it.

  2. Much appreciated, Christina. It’s at least the fourth frangipani I’ve tried to grow – and the only one that has been successful..

    It’s been really surreal here today. We woke to blue skies, and it has been hot and humid all day with not a drop of rain. Yet we know that only a few kilometres away huge areas are slowly being submerged under muddy water.

    The effects of the flooding were apparent in the supermarket – no bread, no milk, and very depleted stocks of fresh vegetables and fruit. I suspect it will get worse.

    However, I’m sure you will be pleased for us when I say that the bottle shop had not run out of red wine! 🙂

  3. Suggestions which may well not work. Either do the lot or let it go to the garden in the sky!!!
    Pick off worst affected leaves, burn or put in bin, not compost.
    Fertilise with something that has a lot of trace minerals use max regime as specified on bottle, don’t overdo it!
    If you wish to go the whole hog buy a foliar fungicide and spray it once a week through this rainy season.

    Should you lose it and it is not the first to die, is it suitable for your garden? Are there other successful ones in the area? Is it getting too much sun/shade etc? Have you checked its requirements on the web? Too alkali/acid etc? Has it been adequately/too much fertilizer?
    Being a tropical I don’t know too much about them, I would pick off a leaf and take it to a garden centre that is known for a good horticulturist in attendance, if that sort of thing even exists there?
    Short of that a Botanic Garden, they are generally very helpful but probably not just at the moment!

  4. There are large healthy Frangipanis in front gardens all up and down the street, although we haven’t gone out to explore whether they are suffering similarly, yet. Ours has done well for the last couple of years, with lots of flowers. We were therefore very surprised to see the diseased leaves yesterday.

    Many thanks for the advice – we shall follow your suggestions and let you know what eventuates. Thanks again. 😀

  5. Thanks Christina. I shall head out to the garden and get rid of the leaves as soon as I am sufficiently awake – and then down to the garden centre (such as it is!) to get some fertiliser and fungicide.

    I omitted to mention that this is the first frangipani that I’ve tried to grow in Queensland. This is the only State that I’ve managed to grow anything at all!

  6. On closer inspection, the ‘large healthy Frangipanis in front gardens all up and down the street’ are all suffering much the same as mine.

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