Very strange growth on my rose bush: Let it go, Clay. It will self-destruct in a few days. It tends

» CarolWallace - Let it go, Clay. It will self-destruct in a few days. It tends

Let it go, Clay. It will self-destruct in a few days. It tends to happen whenever you have a combination of mulch and humidity. We use bark much everywhere and see many of these little slime molds every summer. First they are bright and ugly, then they seem to fade to an innocucous beige, and they they disappear.

The first time I saw one I asked about it on rec.gardens and found a Ph.D. who had, believe it or not, done his dissertation on slime molds. He congratulated me on being able to witness one of nature's little miracles, assured me that it was notonly quite harmless but might in fact be helping to nourish the garden. After that, I've been quite content to leave them.

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Carol
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