Purdue Landscape Report: Dieback and canker diseases caused by Botryosphaeria, Sphaeropsis, Diplodia and other closely related fungal pathogens are exceptionally common on woody landscape plants. This ...

When planting a new tree: Plant your tree on a good site ... Also maintain good drainage. Canker diseases can be controlled if diagnosed early and action is taken. To control canker disease ...

Other diseases like Botryosphaeria cankers, Cercospora needle blight ... the ever-present competition for water from surrounding plants. as well as potential damage to trees from lawn mowers ...

A canker is an area of disease in the wood of a plant. “We can’t cure cankers,” said Sharon Yiesla, plant knowledge specialist in the Plant Clinic at The Morton Arboretum in Lisle.

In terms of dandelions, the best time to control them is when they are in the puff ball or shoe fairy stage. (Shoe fairies are the name my grandson gave them years ago while walking through the yard, ...

Wingfield M.J., 2003. Increasing threat of diseases to exotic plantation forest in the Southern Hemisphere: lessons from Cryphonectria canker Australasian Plant Pathology 32: 133-139.

Like last week, this is certainly not a comprehensive list of plant diseases; instead, it covers newer ones that have great potential to cause harm. Thousand cankers disease of walnut (Geosmithia ...

Avoid systemic insecticides which travel throughout the plant, including the flowers ... tip blights, and canker diseases. The two most common insects are gall adelgids and spruce spider mites ...

Gardeners, this week we are discussing Asian Citrus Greening and Citrus Canker and how we can recognize each of the two citrus diseases. There are numerous plant diseases that may attack citrus ...

On Monday the Northern Territory Government banned the movement of plants that could be infected with citrus canker from six areas where the disease has been detected. Propagation of the plants in ...