This poor thing! I was cleaning up underneath it and found this mess of a bush! I think dh might have sprayed it with the ortho lawn and garden bug spray before we had everyone here a couple weeks ago!
Please tell me it will be okay? Just below this back branching I did find one of those puff ball fungi things, a purplish/black one. With all the humidity, could this be a fungus? Is there anything I can do to help this bush? It appears on some branches, not on others and also in different stages. I'll try to include the pics I got today of it.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Is this overspray from insecticide damage on my lilacs?
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Is this overspray from insecticide damage on my lilacs?
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Here are some closeups of the leaves and branching.
Edited when I realized I'd neglected to add the pics
Edited when I realized I'd neglected to add the pics
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Jane,
It's kind of hard to tell. It could be spray damage, or it could be some kind of blight. Several of my lilacs get a blight or disease nearly every year. Some of the branches look like that, but they've had it for years and it hasn't killed them yet.
Linda P
It's kind of hard to tell. It could be spray damage, or it could be some kind of blight. Several of my lilacs get a blight or disease nearly every year. Some of the branches look like that, but they've had it for years and it hasn't killed them yet.
Linda P
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Do these closeups help Linda? I've never had this before that I remember and have had lilacs of one sort or another for my life. This is relatively new variety for me, it's a pink blossom, so I'm wondering it's susceptible to disease or blight. Gosh I hope not!
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