What are these plants and what should I do about them?

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MissMonkey San Jose, CA May 24, 2008

We are renting this house in San Jose, CA and we have little gardening experience. These two plants are on a fairly shady side of the house. They are on a automatic drip that comes on three times per week for 10 mins. The shrub had fallen over so I staked it back up. The person at the hardware store thought it might be snails so I put out a bunch of snail/slug pellets. I did see a bunch of snails when I looked but I haven't seen any for a couple weeks after I put out the pellets. We had a heat wave for a couple days so I watered them more with a soaker hose. Any ideas? Thanks in advance!

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growgirl59 Saint Louis, MO May 24, 2008

Sorry I can't help with the ID on the first plant. However, I don't think what you're looking at is snail damage. It looks more like a fungus to me. (I'm referring to the black spotty portion). The holes are probably from another type insect (catapillar maybe). Slugs would devour more and damage would likely be to lower parts of the plant. The second photo is Clivia. I see this sort of thing on all of mine from time to time. I've heard a number of theories on what causes it, but I know that cutting off the dried brown tip just into the healthy green tissue usually ends the problem. Wish I was more informative, but someone on here will be able to fill you in more, I'm sure.
Chris

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ecrane3 Dublin, CA(Zone 9a) May 24, 2008

I agree with Chris, that first one looks like it has something fungal going on. If you can get a picture or two that shows more of the plant maybe someone will know what plant it is (also have you ever noticed flowers, berries, etc on it?) If it's on the shady side of the house and is something that is relatively drought tolerant it's possible that it's getting too much water, or some things are just more prone to fungal infections than others. Also, when did you notice the black spots starting on it?

The clivia in the other pics looks relatively healthy so I wouldn't worry too much about it, plants are always going to wind up with a hole or two or a brown edge here and there. If you look at the pics in Plant Files, there are a lot of clivias out there that look a lot like yours so unless the leaves start to look a lot worse or you get a lot more holes in them I wouldn't worry too much about it.

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