??A DISASTER MADE GOOD??

I like pieris too but this new creation of yours is very attractive. Ferns are beautiful.

I think it has been quite a difficult year in the garden with many bugs and diseases out there waiting to spoil our hard work!

You are up late Wildrose!! thanks for your kind comments, just hoping the ferns will survive better than the Pieris, they are long lived so I believe!!

I'm sorry about your pieris plants but admire your fortitude.

Better removed than the bugs getting a hold on everything else. The corner still looks nice though DD.

Thanks Bathgate if you knew just how many nasties could ruin your plants, you would never garden again!!
Lindak that's what I thought!!

Thanks for the warning Angela I have several Pieris growing with Rhododendrons I'm galloping outside to have an inspection of them .. I love your new fernery the pieces of wood from France go perfectly with them ....

The fern border is lovely - has a real peaceful feel about it. Shame a bout the Pieris but your solution is great.

Another bug invading the south. Gosh, we are lucky that we don't get all these horrid beasties....yet! Your new mini fernery is lovely. I think I prefer it to Pieris. They are nice, but a little dull after a while.

It looks great...sad about your Pieris...but you have done a great job with the ferns..

Mine look to be free of it thank goodness ,I'll be keeping an eye on them !

Thanks for the warning Angela, I'll be checking my Pieris tomorrow. It's a long term favourite, so I'd be very upset to lose it.:( Your solution is very positive - good for you!

Sheila I noticed a few years back the foliage was not right! but put it down to the weather. stupid I know!! luckily the solution was the there in front of me, the French wood!
Meadow it is worth checking ......thanks for commenting.
Amy pleased to hear yours are fine......my variegated ones were my pride and joy! still that's gardening!
Thanks Sandra and Stera, luckily OH and I like ferns!
Karen the penalty's of living in the south!! ...

Such a shame to lose treasured plants but the fernery has its own charms too.
So, there are baddie lacewings as well as good ones, never knew there were different types, thanks for the alert, hope they don't come eastwards.

Sorry about the Pieris, but where would you have put your stumps otherwise!

Yes GF there are baddies.......especially in the South.....Siris the stumps were there before...