An effort to beautify the Falls has failed. Why? Not because the desired effect was not achieved, but due to a plant disease called black knot. Black knot is a fungus which attacks some fruit ...

Tired of working so hard in your garden and your plants not thriving ... twigs of your plum trees are caused by a fungal disease called black knot, the bane of backyard growers of plums and ...

A reader from Mohicanville contacted me around June 15 a few years ago to ask aboutthe deformed branches on her sour cherry tree. My reader’s tree had elongated, rough black swellings or knots that ...

Jean A. Sounds as if you have a problem called black knot. Black knot is a fungal disease that affects plants in the plum family such as cherries, plums and prunes. The disease causes the black ...

This disease, black knot, is caused by a fungus called ... The most effective way to avoid black knot is to plant a resistant cultivar such as ‘Goldrush’ Amur cherry. Unfortunately, there ...

A: Your black cherry tree had a case of black knot, a common fungal disease. When a tree is infected ... water well and wait for fall for more flowers. The plant blooms on new growth, and as ...

Garden Information Line caller Dear caller: The problem is black knot, a common fungal disease on wild plums ... but is now on noxious- and invasive-plant lists in many states.

I first want to thank my readers for helping me out by asking me questions. For me, one of the things I enjoy is working on these projects and helping people. A reader from Mohicanville got in ...

Schubert Chokecherry and Mayday trees in the city are particularly affected by the fungus ... knot is the characteristic black, tar-like swellings that develop on branches of the infected plant.

This is called Black Knot Disease. It affects a wide range of plants in the Prunus genus, including plum, cherry, chokecherry, and mayday trees, and can sometimes also affect others species in the ...

Also known as cherry knot fungus, the disease causes black tumor-like growths to form ... "It spreads from plant to plant from pruners, insects, birds, anything that can carry the spores," Johnson ...

Recently you published a letter from the Koochiching Men’s Garden Club concerning the spread of black knot disease in some types of ornamental and wild fruit trees, which is already a serious ...