crate myrtles

QuestionI have one crate myrtle in my back yard with four soft touch Holies around it in a flower garden. It has been beautiful with large white blooms for three years.This year I noticed the bark was turning black

Aphids? on Japanese Red Maple

QuestionI noticed some holes on some of the leaves, and looking at the undersides of the leaves, I saw a few tiny green things. What can I treat them with? The tree is young and was just planted a month

Apple Tree Leaves

QuestionHi, Kathy We have Apple Trees up in the Mountains Snow Level and we noticed that one of our Trees have Curly Leaves or waved like looked only on one tree, we have 21 trees none of the other Trees have this s

Silver Leaf Maple

QuestionWe have a young Silver Leaf Maple that has not leafed out so far this year. New Sprouts with leaves keeping coming up around the base, but not on the tree itself. The limbs do not appear to be br

Plum tree aphids

QuestionI am trying to control aphids in my plum tree. I have tried oil dormant sprays from bud stage to now neem oil at leafed out stage. Nothing seems to work as the aphids are safe curled in their little home of

weeping cherry leaf curl

QuestionI live in NW Ohio and I have a fairly young weeping cherry that is about 5 tall. Over the past week or two I have noticed some of the leaves turning yellow/brown falling off some limbs seem dried out dead wh

Red Leaf Maple

QuestionI have a red leaf maple that is approximately 15 feet tall. This year it has started sprouting leaves around the first branches and nowhere else. At 4 feet, on the base of the tree contains folia

Weeping Cherry and Coppertina: white fuzzy stuff on bark and leaves

Question Snow_Fountain_cherry_w Hi, My snow fountain cherry has white fuzzy stuff on the bark. My coppertina has white fuzzy stuff on the bark and leaves. I took some pictures I could send you if that helps to sol

Privet diseases?

QuestionAttempting to rejuvenate old privets. Cut them to 0ne foot in 2006. Stumps sent up shoots which I let grow to about four feet before pruning. Now theyre about seven feet tall and some of th

strange change in elm

QuestionQUESTION: The elm tree in my yard has developed baseball sized wads of deformed leaves covered with something white. In addition the unaffected leaves have 1/2 projections, from 1 to 10 per leaf, sticking ou

golden/brown leaves of Crete Myrtle Tree

QuestionMy Crete Myrtle tree is 10 years old, and last year it never really bloomed, nor did it have green leaves. I had it pruned last Fall (about 1/3) and this year again, its green leaves have turned brown.

Yellow Spots on Stem of Cilantro

QuestionYikes! I just started my first herb garden in a window box on a very sunny side of my house. I have cilantro, basil, and rosemary. All the plants look beautiful and healthy, although the rosemary hasnt sprea

Bradford Pear-Black leaves

QuestionOur Bradford trees are 16 yrs old and have been healthy. Recently, I noticed an orange spikey growth on quite a few branches. Next to the growth, the leaves have turned black. Is it a fungu

diagnosis of disease?

QuestionThe plants in my yard have some type of disease that stunts the growth or is making the leaves shrink. The leaves on top look minature to the bush. I live in Phoenix and it is affecting all the p

Avacado Tree Canker

Questionhow do i get rid of a Bacterial Canker on my avocado. There are 3-4 spots on the truck which are sunken in and black inside with white powdery residue covering the holes. AnswerHi Jennifer, The only

cone flower problem

QuestionOur cone flowers have been in the gorund for 4 years,,,each branch is wilting,,,,they have holes in them,,,wilting and curled,,,we sprayed with number 8,,last week,help,,,ginger AnswerHoles sound like

more info on my bonsai

QuestionSorry to take up so much of your time, but I have just noticed something else regarding my wine grape bonsai plants. Quite a few leaves have small black bumps (not spots) on them. I did have these plants on

Tri Colored Beech, leaf problem?

QuestionGreetings, My Tri-colored Beech tree (planted last year)has a white, sticky, mold (?) growing on the underside of 25% of its leaves.....ants seem attracted to the sappy like stuff....looks kinda fuzzy, not u

Substance on Waxleaf Ligustrum

QuestionWhat could be a web-like substance on the branches of our Waxleaf Ligustrum. It is almost like a white film that covers the branches with a green moldy substance underneath. The tree is probably

Non bearing Mulberry Tree

Question I live in southwestern NM, and I have a non bearing Mulberry tree in my front yard that is 16 years old. this year I noticed a lot of dead branches, and the leaves are small, and not thick. The tree gets pl