Pleasant Evenings and Sick Plants

Oh dear BB the joys and disappointments of gardening.I was wondering what sort of damage the grass hoppers did..you mentioned they completely devoured the Cordyline, fingers crossed for your present ones.We don't see many over here.

Your Calathea was a beauty BB, I do hope it recovers well. There's always some creature ready to decimate our lovely plants isn't there..:( Slugs and snails have been so bad over here this year. With the rainfall we've had they've really enjoyed summer! I'm still picking them off my plants, end of October!

The first picture is so gorgeous. You have a very nice view in that direction Bushbernie.
Sorry for your Calathea . They are lovely plants. I have one called "Calathea rattlesnake " which has done nothing in 2 years . It does not look sick , it just "hangs in there", in the same shape and size as I bought it.
Your Syngonium have a nice pink leaf colour which looks good against the greenery.

Love sunsets, Bernie! That's a gorgeous one too.
I'm sorry you are struggling with some of your beautiful plants, it's horrid when they ail. I hope you manage to bring them on and they start to thrive again. They do look so striking.

Meadowland, the grasshoppers are huge and they do a lot of damage to so many plants. Unfortunately they're a common pest during our summer months, some years far worse than others though.

Janey, slugs and snails are not common pests here but we certainly do have our fair share of others - wallabies, scrub turkeys and big grasshoppers do the most damage.

Klahanie, our view across to the ranges is one of the reasons we bought this place initially. Sorry to hear about your Calathea as well. I wonder why it's never taken off?

Kate, fingers crossed I can keep these plants thriving. It's a familiar battle for gardeners no matter where in the world we are.

Hello Bushbernie - what a selection of plants - beautiful leaf colours --beautiful plants -we grow canna lilies - but they get attacked by slugs similarly so do the Hostas - a good remedy for our plants is used coffee granules sprinkled around the shoots as they start to grow in the Spring - coffee shops and garden centres around here pass on the spent granules to their customers - we also get mealy bug and vine weevil a nightmare - love your sky shot - Jane

Thanks Jane. I've never tried used coffee granules. I'd have to look into a source for those as neither my husband nor I drink freshly ground coffee much at all. At the moment it seems that the Calathea is rallying, but I'm keeping an eagle eye on it.

Bb, you have my windowsill syngonium growing in your garden! How pretty they look in your space. I've tried calatheas indoors but without much success.
That evening sky is a wonderful colour.
Sorry to hear about problems with insects. As Janey said, we've had a year where the slugs and snails have worked their way through lots of our plants and most haven't recovered in my space. Never seen anything like it!