Black Rot: This bacterial disease thrives in warm and humid conditions and attacks the leaves. Yellow-orange V shaped lesions occur on the edges of the leaves and eventually dry out and the leaves fall off. Burpee Recommends: Rotate crops with plants in a different family. Avoid overhead watering. Provide adequate air circulation, do not overcrowd plants. Do not work around plants when they are wet. Control weeds where the disease can overwinter.
Damping Off: This is one of the most common problems when starting plants from seed. The seedling emerges and appears healthy; then it suddenly wilts and dies for no obvious reason. Damping off is caused by a fungus that is active when there is abundant moisture and soils and air temperatures are above 68 degrees F.
Typically, this indicates that the soil is too wet or contains high amounts of nitrogen fertilizer. Burpee Recommends: Keep seedlings moist but do not overwater; avoid over-fertilizing your seedlings; thin out seedlings to avoid overcrowding; make sure the plants are getting good air circulation. Rust: A number of fungus diseases that rust colored spots on foliage.
Burpee Recommends: Practice crop rotation. Remove infected plants. Contact your Cooperative Extension Service for recommendations. Stem Canker: Part of the stem looks sunken and turns brown. The stem will wilt. This is caused by a fungus. The canker can open and ooze sap. This fungus can spread to all parts of the plant causing the plant to die. Burpee Recommends: Remove any infected stem as soon as you see symptoms.
Rotate crops. Try not to get the stems and leaves wet when watering the plant. Aphids: Greenish, red, black or peach colored sucking insects can spread disease as they feed on the undersides of leaves.
They leave a sticky residue on foliage that attracts ants. Burpee Recommends: Introduce or attract natural predators into your garden such as lady beetles and wasps which feed on aphids. You can also wash them off with a strong spray, or use an insecticidal soap.
Japanese Beetles : Burpee Recommends: Hand pick early in the morning into a bucket of soapy water. Leafminers: These insects bore just under the leaf surface causing irregular serpentine lines. The larvae are yellow cylindrical maggots and the adults are small black and yellow flies. They do not usually kill plants, but disfigure the foliage.
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This website uses cookies to improve user experience. By continuing to use our website you consent to all cookies in accordance with our cookie policy. Share on Facebook. Share on Twitter. Health and Medicine. By Justine Alford 08 Sep , This website uses cookies This website uses cookies to improve user experience. Currently, the only plants contributing any color to my backyard landscape and offering food for nectar-feeding bees, butterflies and other insects are butterfly bushes, lantana, Turk's cap and native morning glories that volunteered in my gardens and along the roadside in front of my home.
Although the morning glory is widely recognized where ever it grows, the plant lives under a cloud of confusion. Some people simply adore it, while others revile it. Although it is often planted for its beautiful flowers, it is rarely touted as a wildlife plant. Consequently, we homeowners are left scratching our heads wondering if it is valued member of our backyard plant community or a plant we should avoid.
Part of the reason for this confusion is that, depending on which botanists you talk to, there are anywhere from 1,, species of morning glories growing worldwide. Sixteen of them are native to the Southeast. On top of that, plant breeders have developed untold numbers of hybrids. This makes it very difficult to characterize the plant.
Some are perennials while others are annuals. The vast majority of them produce a vine; however, some are shrubs. A few morning glories have blossoms up to 8 inches wide, while others display tiny blooms only an inch or so wide. Flowers range from bicolored to varying shades of red, white, blue, purple, pink and even yellow.
Some morning glories bloom early; others bear their flowers late in the year. The one trait that the vast majority of morning glories share is that they produce wide-mouthed, funnel-shaped blossoms. The morning glory earned its name from the fact that its beautiful, fragile flowers unfurl in the morning. However, as we all know, beauty is often fleeting. Such is the case with the morning glory. The flowers last only a day and begin fading about two hours before the sun dips below the horizon.
This attrition is compensated by the fact that individual vines will often bloom until frost. History tells us that the Japanese have been cultivating morning glories since the 9th Century. The Japanese have become so adept at this art they have developed more varieties than any other nation. The Chinese were among the first to use the morning glory for medicinal purposes. They used it as a laxative. On the other side of the globe, native tribes living in what is now Mexico used morning glories as a medicine and in their religious rituals.
Early on, here in America practitioners of folk medicine used various parts of morning glories to treat everything from stomach aches to rheumatoid arthritis.
The morning glory flower has great symbolic meaning to those versed in the language of flowers. The symbolic use of morning glories flourished during the Victorian Era, often depicted in romantic novels and screenplays. In the subtle meanings attributed to different flowers, a blue morning glory blossom represents affection for another, while a red flower denotes strong passion.
The morning glory also is said to represent the 11th year of marriage. Morning glories etched on old grave stones are said to symbolize mourning, spirituality and fleeting mortality.
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