{"id":171,"date":"2018-10-24T23:09:54","date_gmt":"2018-10-24T23:09:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chapters.cnps.org\/oc\/?p=171"},"modified":"2018-10-24T23:09:54","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T23:09:54","slug":"arrgggh-what-are-your-garden-frustrations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chapters.cnps.org\/oc\/2018\/10\/24\/arrgggh-what-are-your-garden-frustrations\/","title":{"rendered":"Arrgggh! What are Your Garden Frustrations?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><strong>Gardeners\u2019 Corner | Questions and Answers with Local Experts<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>By Dan Songster, 2016 May<\/p>\n<p>This column is a regular newsletter feature offering chapter members and local experts a chance to briefly share information on many things related to gardening with natives. The request for this edition is: \u201cI found my\u00a0<em>Calochortus venustus<\/em>\u00a0that had sprouted so nicely eaten to the ground by rabbits and said, Arrgggh!!! <strong><span class=\"highlight\">What has made you say \u201cArrgggh\u201d so far this year?<\/span><\/strong>\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ron Vanderhoff<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; \u201cMy <span class=\"highlight\"><em>Aristida purpurea<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 purple three-awn grass<\/span>. I should have known better, having seen the naturalized planting at Tree of Life Nursery, but I planted a few of these anyway. They are beautiful, but after trying to hand pull all the volunteers for the past few years I have now officially lost the battle. The patch is bigger every year. I need to make it go away before I have a complete \u201cpurple three-awn\u201d landscape.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Leon Baginski\u00a0<\/strong>&#8211; \u201d<span class=\"highlight\">Snails<\/span>!!!! I live by the coast and the moisture in the air brings them out in this cooler weather and they eat all my lupine to the ground!!! Arghhhh!!!!\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Sarah Jayne\u00a0<\/strong>&#8211; \u201cI arrived one morning at the native plant school garden I have tended for the last 8 years to find that half the garden had been stripped and replanted with non-native \u201cdrought tolerant\u201d things. This was way beyond arrrrggghhh!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Rama Nayeri\u00a0<\/strong>&#8211; \u201cFor my own garden I ARGG that I have a 100 square feet of <span class=\"highlight\">concrete patio<\/span>, the only garden space I have that I cannot remove or change. I also have an AC unit that I cannot permanently cover.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jeanne Carter<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; \u201cI lost several plants to <span class=\"highlight\">skunks<\/span> digging for grubs a El Modena HS Nature Center. Arrggh!!! Anyone have solutions? Wire mesh around the plants did not work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Helen Smisko\u00a0<\/strong>&#8211; \u201cAfter watching <span class=\"highlight\">Polyphagous Shot Hole Borer\/Fusarium (PSHB)<\/span> attack Acer, Platanus, and Parkinsonia trees, it was then found on Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden&#8217;s first Populus tree.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Laura Camp<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; \u201cI looked out my back window this past winter, an my Arctostaphylos \u2018Howard McMinn\u2019 was wilted and obviously going downhill fast. At that point there was nothing I could do but watch it die. Arrgggh! In the end I only lost part of it (a maibranch split) but part of it lived, and new growth is sprouting from a rooted branch, and will fill in the missing plant.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Mark Sugars<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; <strong>\u201cArrgggastropods!\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Curt Craft<\/strong>\u00a0-\u201cMy moment is with Encelia farinosa. I did not prune the stalks back and when some <span class=\"highlight\">strong winds<\/span> came along, some of the stalks broke off at the base of the plant. Arrgggh!!!\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Celia Kutcher<\/strong>\u00a0-\u201c<span class=\"highlight\">Hot dry winds<\/span>, instead of the predicted rain, that dried up the Baby Blue Eyes &amp; Freeway Lupines before their time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dan Songster\u00a0<\/strong>&#8211; \u201cBesides my Calochortus being nibbled down to stubs by <span class=\"highlight\">rabbits <\/span>at Golden West College Native Garden (yes, it really did happen), at home my favorite 9 year old Humboldt Lily did not reappear this year but had <span class=\"highlight\">rot<\/span>ted away. 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