To combat freezing temperatures that lead to desiccation, winter-damaged trees will appreciate heavy watering and the ...
Within a day, they've returned to their former self and can continue to photosynthesise. Farrant, now a professor of desiccation tolerance at the University of Cape Town, has been studying these ...
Last year it was the box tree moth and the year before it was Volutella leaf ... and remain on the plant all winter, there is some desiccation injury. Desiccation injury is different than stem dieback ...