Ants eatng away at my fatsia japonica

Are you sure its the ants? And that your Fatsia is not infested with blackfly which the ants are encouraging to get their honeydew?

Not sure - only saw ants on the leaves.

Found online a tip - put mint in the pot as ants do not like mint -wotrt a try.

Ants don't eat vegetation. As bamboo says, they must be feeding on some other pest on your Fatsia.

You can obviously tell that I am a true amateur gardener - I thought the ants were doing the gorging of my plant.

I do appreciate you all taking the time to help me (or should I say help my plants).

Thanks

C

You might want to spray for the aphids though - you could use a systemic insecticide as its not a food plant.

Whose spray do you recommend.

Thanks

C

there's plenty of ready made bug sprays out there that treat aphids - personally, I always use Roseclear 3 and mix it up myself in a sprayer - it's a combined fungicide/pesticide, so you've always got something to treat either with, but that's just my preference, saves too many bottles hanging about. And i always find the ones you mix yourself are more effective anyway.

Many thanks - will try it.

C