Comments on: Plant of the Week – July 26 https://www.scottarboretum.org/pw-july-26/ Wed, 27 Aug 2025 21:45:56 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 By: Bill Costello https://www.scottarboretum.org/pw-july-26/#comment-759 Tue, 27 Jul 2010 15:21:22 +0000 http://blogs.scottarboretum.org/gardenseeds/?p=2211#comment-759 The Japanese beetles have been few and far between here at the Scott Arboretum this year. My thought is that the extremely hot dry spells this spring and early summer disrupted the late stage larval development, pupation and adult emergence, either by dessication or by making the soil extremely hard to move through.
Fewer adults in the previous year could also be a cause for smaller populations this year. Last year the extremely wet soils probably drown most of the developing beetles.

]]> By: Nancy Yergin https://www.scottarboretum.org/pw-july-26/#comment-758 Tue, 27 Jul 2010 13:42:16 +0000 http://blogs.scottarboretum.org/gardenseeds/?p=2211#comment-758 Lord Baltimore isn’t blooming yet in my zone 5 NW PA garden in Forest County. This is an August bloomer for me.
This is the first year that I’ve seen barely a handful of Japanese Beetles enjoying this showy hibiscus buds and leaves (or other garden favorites) instead of the usual ravenous horde. Anyone else seeing fewer J. beetles this summer?

]]> By: Aubree Cherie https://www.scottarboretum.org/pw-july-26/#comment-757 Mon, 26 Jul 2010 23:34:43 +0000 http://blogs.scottarboretum.org/gardenseeds/?p=2211#comment-757 Ooo, I love the photo of Zelkova serrata ‘Goshiki’! I’ve never seen it before but it’s pretty stunning.

~Aubree Cherie

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