I have trouble every year with powdery mildew. This year I even had it on the butternut squash in the greenhouse. I read an article about using milk mixed at a rate of 1 part milk 3 parts water and it was more effective than synthetic fungicides. So I gave it a try. It worked. Three applications. First two three days apart, third one week later. gone. I did loose some leaves but the new leaves look ok. I'm going to do a weekly spray in the garden and see what happens this year. It is rumored to help with fungi on other plants too. Tomato blight, black sooty mildew. There are a lot of articles on the internet The one I read said most effective at 19% milk or higher for the mix and skim milk works as well as whole milk. If I can find the article I will post the url

Hi Julia, Whether or not it can be saved depends on just how dry the roots got, but from what you've described, it sounds like it will probably make it. Creeping Jenny (it is Lysimachia nummularia that you have, isn't it?) can actually be grown as a water plant, so I'd recommend that you keep the saucer under it filled with water until it recovers. But don't do this with other things trying to save them! Too much water will kill most things very, very quickly, and do far more damage than too little water. To be sure what you have, here's a link to pictures and info about both the green and gold varieties of L.n. When you plant it in the ground, it prefers more shade than sun, but if you plant it in sun and keep it really, really wet it should be ok too---just be sure you don't keep the other things around it too wet too. When planted near a pond, the trailing stems of this stuff will actually grow out onto the water and float on it--it can be real pretty. Regarding other "seemingly dead" plants, it just depends on what the plant is and why it looks dead! If it's just been underwatered like yours, there's a fairly good chance many can be saved---again, depending on how dry the roots got. If it's been overwatered, the chances of saving it are greatly decreased. Good luck, Welcome to GardenWeb, and Welcome to the wonderful world of gardening, Skybird Here is a link that might be useful: Lysimachia nummularia, Creeping Jenny

All organisms die in 3 basic ways - 1) mechanical disruption, 2) dysfunction, or 3) energy depletion. The later 2 are both suspects in the decline of your plant. Dysfunction occurs when some parts/organs are not operating efficiently and other parts/organs reflect the strain. In this case, it's a good bet the root system is not functioning as Mother Nature intended, and the plant's system is wobbling like a top out of control. This leads to the plant's energy demands outstripping the plants ability to provide enough energy to keep the plant viable. The plant, in an attempt to balance it's demands with its output has been shedding parts - the opposite of growth. A plant that isn't growing is dying, so unless the trend is reversed by your intervention, there is little hope of the plant remaining viable much longer. Appearances seem to be indicating the plant is starved for light and is being over-watered. There may be other issues related to soil chemistry in play, and the soil itself may be a problem (structural collapse or simply inappropriate from the outset). If it was my plant, I would flush the living Dickens out of the soil (the living Dickens actually means dissolved solids/salts), remove the plant from the pot and set it on a wad of newspapers for a couple of hours to 'pull' the excess water from the pot, then move the plant outdoors, first into open shade and then where if gets some morning and afternoon sun. When it starts growing again, I would fertilize with an appropriate fertilizer, like Foliage-Pro 9-3-6. If fungal pathogens have invaded the vasculature of the plant's stem/trunk, you could try taking a cutting, but with virtually no energy reserves, it's unlikely that effort would end in success. Al

Thanks Dawson! That looks exactly like what my plant has. It should be very helpful! I was trying to find pictures that looked like my plant through google searches and images and came up empty handed.