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A local town has had to rip up 4,000 bizzy lizzies after they were infected by a fungal infection which is apparently rife this year. Thankfully I don't have any, but apparently the RHS were aware of it and it has not been helped by the long damp summer. Apparently the advice is to dig them up and not plant them in the same beds for two to three years. Hope no-one has been affected.

I no several people round here that have had the same problems. As luck would have it I didn't bother myself this year as I had some begonia's instead.

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Mine had it! They struggled all summer long, and when we came back from holiday, they had already died by themselves---the leaves were all gone and it looked as though they were just a few stems. They had plenty of rain while we were away, and they were in an outdoor bed, so they didn't die of lack of water, but more like what I think was some new strain of downey mildew (I read it in a newspaper).

It looked pretty bad, whatever hit them. I dug them up and now I will plant other things in that bed for awhile. I've replaced them with pansies for the winter, which seem to be doing well, and I'll probably have to plant something else there next year, like marigolds or something.

Interesting to see others had the problem too. Never had it before. Previously I may have lost a plant or two due to blackfly or something, but never had a buzy lizzie problem like this before (there were over 20 plants in that bed).

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Just a quick note but if you've had this fungal disease, please, please, burn the plants and do not compost them - don't even put them in your main bin - put them in the council green waste bins (the heat they compost at will kill the spores). I know this is an obvious thing to say but sometimes it's just best to say!

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Yes, mine succumbed. To start with it was only the ones I planted in the garden, but now the hanging baskets and stands have been affected.

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