Zantedeschia 'Calla Lily' Spathe in kitchen 14th May 2021

Mine outside are only just showing about the soil.
this is a beautiful colour.

My youngest son & his wife bought me it for my birthday about 4 years ago & I manage to get it to flower every year!

This year it is outdoing itself as there are so many spathes it difficult to count them all! I think I had 7 on the plant last year but this year I loose count after about 10!

Every year it gets these itsy bitsy teeny weeny grey-white aphids but I manage to keep them fairly under control by squashing them before they get too numerous but this year it hasn't worked as well & the plant is covered in 1,000s of them! 😱😞 Their excretions have drawn ants & no matter how much we clean the surface the plant is on the ants come back.

Any suggestions as to how to rid the plant of them without using chemicals?

I like this dark one ,I have one in the garden but there's no sign of it yet ...

This is now starting to go over & the first spathes are drying up. 😞 I've ordered some Neem oil to see if I can save the plant & others that are also getting covered in these tiny aphids.

Our kitchen is practically over run with ants so I decided I couldn't wait any longer.