Golden canker in soil?
Our pagoda dogwood died of golden canker. We cut it down to a stump last year and now several shoots are growing from the roots. Will this produce a healthy plant or is the new growth likely to get golden…
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Dormant Mandevilla with white spots
We live in Scarborough. I overwintered 3 mandevilla vines in our cool basement and discovered they now have white spots on the stems ( no leaves on plant) which I think might be a mold. The white spots are mostly…
Shrub for fungus-prone garden
We have a small urban backyard garden in Toronto. Our pagoda dogwood died of golden canker. Our serviceberry has rust (probably related to neighbouring juniper).
We would like to plant a flowering shrub in the spot where the pagoda dogwood…
Is this tree diseased?
This is the branch of my Tulip tree. Is it diseased? Should I have it taken down? I live in the east end of Toronto (Pape and Danforth neighbourhood).…
Purple sand cherry tree
I live in Mississauga and have a fifteen-year-0ld sand cherry tree in my front yard. In the spring and summer of this year, it started to ooze a clear liquid along the entire length of its branches that solidified into…
Mature Cedar Turning Yellow
Hi I have mature cedars which are suddenly filled with Spider Web and Moth, I keep removing the spider webs and they keep coming back.
I usually Fertilize them with 30-10-10 from April to Sep but I noticed this year…
Suspicious lawn dry patches
Hi there,
Back in April, we installed new sod in our front yard. A few weeks ago, the area where the new sod was installed started getting dry patches. The area where the old grass stayed does not have these…
Asters – powdery orange mold
another first for me – clouds of orange dust flying off the established Asters as i cut them back. they’re in full sun, watered regulary with a drip soaker hose, Leaside. There was orange residue everywhere. YUCK! have you any…
Garlic Stem and Bulb Nematode
Hello,
I am hoping to sort out whether or not my crop has been infected with the aforementioned nematode. My plot is in the west end of Toronto(zone 6a), in a community garden. I have been growing garlic there for…
What’s wrong with my berry bushes?
I don’t know what’s wrong with my raspberry, blackberry, blueberry and honeyberry bushes and I’m afraid it’s blight.
About a month ago we had to prune and ultimately destroy a pear tree that a Toronto Master Gardener confirmed (by its…