blue holly bush

QuestionMy holly bush has yellow leaves with dark spots on them. What is it and how do I treat it? When should the bush be trimmed and how much? AnswerKim: There are actually several possibilities for t

Oak Leaf Problem?

Question Oak Leaf Good Afternoon Jim, Ive just had a walk in the local fields, most of which have been recently planted with native broadleaf trees (approximately 100 acres) about 10 years ago. When passing an oak t

money tree bug problem

Questionhello: i have an indoor money tree, small a 1 ft. recently i noticed there are small flying bug coming out from the soil, so i changed the potting soil. the problem seems to get better but i still see

Diseased Plants

QuestionPhlox QUESTION: I have 3 plants (unidentified plant, phox, and roses) in a row that look to be diseased or have some type of fungus or both. I planted them a couple of summers ago and unti

Damaged bark on maple tree!

QuestionI have a small sapling red maple about 8 tall and couple of inch diameter planted only about a month or so ago and my dog peeled off a strip of bark about 3/4 around the trunk at the base up to about 3 foot

Discolored Day Lilly Leaves

QuestionQUESTION: Dr. Vann Every year my day lillies come up healthy aand thriving. Then, the tips of the leaves begin to yellow. Over time - weeks - the yellow progresses down towards the baseand previously yellowe

Trees have lichen? on them.

Questionbing cherry tree QUESTION: I have this lichen or something on my fruit trees, 2 cherry and an apple. The apple lost all of its leaves after budding and leaving and hasnt shown life for about 4 weeks.

tiny black spots and yellowing oak tree leaves

QuestionOur oak tree that is about 3 years old has yellowing of the leaves and tiny black spots all over them. Some of the leaves are turning brown and drying up especially the ones at the ends of the branches. &nbs

Indian Hawthorn

QuestionMy hawthorns leaves are a mottled yellow and green. Many leaves also have small brown dots on the back. Some leaves have larger rusty-looking patches. I recently had several areas where the plants died back.

disease

QuestionWhat are small round greenish and about 1/4 inch tall that grow on the leaves of my trees. Walnut and oak trees. AnswerDonna: I suspect that you are referring to an insect gall- perhaps an insect called phy

Goodland Apple Tree - Fungal Growth

Question Goodland Apple Tree Two years ago in Manitoba we had a quick freeze and my Goodland Apple tree split in the main trunk. The following year one of the main trunks died and this spring I cut the dead tr

Problem with Golden Euonymus

QuestionIve had six of these plants in the ground for 3-4 months. I had amended the soil, used a starter fertilizer, made sure their root balls were slightly above ground level. They lost a few leaves in the first w

peachtree mold

QuestionI have peach trees that have mold on the fruit and some of the peaches have sap coming out of the fruit. The leaves do not appear to be discolored . Just the fruit. Is there anything I can do to prevent this

balcony problems

Question basil hi, do you by any chance know this could be, its affecting my balcony plants, it started on basil, and spread out to tomato and paprika...thanks a lot. greetings from Croatia AnswerIvana: This may

Web Worms in Tall Pecan Trees

QuestionI read your advice on web worms but none of it is going to work for me. First, mine are in the advanced stages and from 20 to 60 feet up in both pecan trees and now my sycamore tree. Is there any

Iris/Daylillies

QuestionQUESTION: Steve (Our thread was too long, so AllX made me start a new one.) Thanks for your continued interest in my problem. I have had poor experience trying to e photos - probably because Im too thrrrrift

Scale on Magnolia Tree

QuestionWe have a beautiful magnolia that is totally infested with scale. I wonder if you could tell me what I could do to get rid of this? Its a very tall tree and I tried to squish as many of these dreaded things

Pumpkin plants

QuestionI have been growing a pumpkin plant in my vegetable garden, and it was growing great until about three weeks ago. The leaves of the plant started to turn yellow, then brown on the edges and die and fall off.

Oak tree leaves

QuestionI ask Jim Hyland a question about an Oak tree I have that has what Jim thinks is fall web worms but also has a secondary problem that he suspects is another worm that has sort of shredded the stems of other

fungus at the base of mature maple tree

QuestionQUESTION: I have a mature maple (approximately 40 to 50 years old). It has a very dark red (almost wine coloured) foliage during the growing season. It is easily 40 feet tall. I found some sort of fungus at