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Same here, white aphids on the buxus, green ones dining on the mint and peas and then black aphid on the vibernum. All getting the ant massage too.
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Fecking ants! I’d try killing them but I think I would have to nuke my garden from orbit. They’re everywhere, in every pot and under every stone. I’ve stopped them farming the apple tree aphids with a judiciously placed strip of gorilla tape, but apart from a fiery apocalypse I think it’s going to have to be live and let live.
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The lupin is about the only bloody plant in the garden that doesn’t Have aphids at the moment. Little buggers are on my rose, my broad beans, my apple tree, a shrub which I can’t remember the name of, a curry plant, and they’ve just set into the tulips even though the tulips are all dying back anyway. They’ve all just had a thorough neem-ing, so that should put on the back foot, but it will be interesting to see where they crop up next. Dunno what it is about my garden that’s so attractive to the little sods but I wish they wouldn’t.