Today, the garden looked fantastic with the grasses now being the ones attaining plague proportions.
Alnus glutinosa (alder) has colonised the area to plague proportions, leaving little light or room for much else.
Part of the problem is the introduction of our Norfolk reed (Phragmites australis) that has grown to plague proportions and is choking the waterways.
Saturday The warm, damp weather has accelerated the usual autumn pests and diseases to plague proportions, mostly of a fungal nature.
Weirdly, the following summer, we got plague proportions of red spider mite on the extremely expensive topiary; something I'd never witnessed before.
The locusts have reached plague proportions across North and West Africa this year and have already affected more than 16 million acres of farmland in northwestern Africa and the region to the south, spreading from Morocco to Niger, Mali, Senegal and Mauritania.
Whatever its precise origins, syphilis reached plague proportions worldwide by the 16th century, when, Ms. Hayden writes, "each country blamed its neighbor for the malevolent import," the Russians calling it the Polish sickness, the Germans cursing it as the Spanish itch.
In North America various species of blackbirds (family Icteridae) are serious pests in grainfields; in Africa a grain-eating finch, the red-billed quelea (Quelea quelea), occurs like locusts, in plague proportions so numerous that alighting flocks may break the branches of trees.
It is hoped that the research will deliver more effective ways to control rodents, which can reproduce very quickly to plague proportions if a reliable source of food is available.
