Claw-like leaf curl on crab apple

QuestionUpper leaves on an ornamental crab apple are curling in a claw-like manner from the top if the tree down. Bottom growth is still healthy. No sign of bugs/mites/mildew when check with a magnifying glass. Tips

Key lime leaf drop

QuestionI live in the lower Florida Keys. I have a Key Lime tree planted outside in native soil; full sun through about 3pm in the summer - not as late in the winter. It has been in the ground approximat

Boston fern tips dying

QuestionMy Boston fern is not doing well. The tips die and the process continues up the frond. This is happening to all the new growth on a recently transplanted fern. The fern was outside for a while after being tr

Pamelo Tree Disease

QuestionI gave a large pamelo tree about 10 years old and bears very large pamelo averaging 5 lbs.(pink inside).the specie that is sold commercially. This year the tree is having a large crop; however, I not

can I use the Safer Insecticide on my once beautiful Rieger begonia which is getting some little white like sand on the leaves?

QuestionQUESTION: I have a 3 year old tree in a pot that I brought from Florida to Mass. it has a dozen nice lemons. but it gets some stickiness on leaves as well as tiny brown spots on underside of leaves. &n

Japanese plum tree disease

QuestionI have a Japanese plum tree (the second one) that seems to have a type of woodpecker holes around the trunk. Year before last we lost one to the same disease. Now our new one, a couple or threee years

Cycads

QuestionWe have 18 Cycads planted in huge ornamental clay/concrete pots that are at least 52 wide on top and it reduces to 39 at the base, we planted the cycads in these pots and the leaves are developing orange spo

Arizona Sweet producing bumpy, bitter fruit

Question Example of problem I am near Phoenix Arizona and have a dwarf Arizona Sweet orange tree that is about 14 years old. A few years ago, it started producing fruit towards the top of the tree that is very bumpy

Draceana deremensis

QuestionHi Kathy, Is there any way of returning my Draceanas to there former glory. From a previous caretaker the plants have clearly been over watered and I have elevated them from the ground concrete to a mesh ben

Lobloolly pine

QuestionQUESTION: I have two loblolly pines. water correctly, I sprayed for bugs. I am at a lose...Help my poor pine trees. ANSWER: Marcia: Can you describe specifically what you are concerned about or

king sago

QuestionWe have a two foot king sago house plant here in Maryland in our east facing window.Plant is watered when dry and fed with palm-tone every three months.Some of the leafs are turning brown. Can you identify p

White Scale on sago plam trees

Questionhow do I get rid of the scales ON THE FRAWNS. Ive tried Flea & tick spray and malathion with no luck AnswerRobert: These insects are often on the undersurface of the fronds (leaves), but not always! T

Diseases on Japanese Maples

QuestionQUESTION: A good friend and I love Japanese Maples and both have many. He has discovered clusters of small 1/16 dia. orange growths spread across the bark of the larger branches of his Okagami. T

Nashi Pear Tree

QuestionHi, We have a beautiful Nashi tree which we planted 3 years ago. The pears are in plentiful supply and look perfect, however the centre (core)is rotting on most of the pears. This is happening straight from

distorted growth

Questionbad cotinus.jpg QUESTION: I have a problem with distorted stems. The shoots become flattened and thickened at the end, and sort of swirl rather than grow straight. This problem affects cotinus and pyr

White mold killing my plants

QuestionI have a white mold which is spreading through many of my ferns. It attaches itself to the stems then spreads up and down the stem. Then the leaves dry up die. I have tried washing the plants with soap and w

black sticky substance on cycad

Question cycad I have a very mature cycad, probably 15 to 20 years old. It is a female plant. The leaves surrounding the seeds have a black, oozing thick substance on them and it is spreading. What is this and how d

Kumquat Tree not bearing Fruit!

QuestionHi Sir: I have a Kumquat tree that I bought from Lowes Home Improvement Store about two years ago. I live in Chicago Area %26 last year during the Winter it bore fruit but this year after our summer starting

evergreen bush disease

QuestionMy evergreens around my deck are dying. I trimmed them last summer and thought the rain would keep them watered enough. Because there is a mass root system under the two decks we built I think th

tree bark damage

Question tree damage Can you help me identify whats hurting my tree and what I can do to repair the damage? Today is the firt time I noticed the damage after moving into the house in September. The holes