I live in Woodstock Ontario and I have been having trouble with boring insects doing significant damage to roses and lilacs as well as my other woody plants.
I am now debating whether I should even prune my roses because…
Every year I have a terrible problem with squirrels. They eat just about everything that I grow including hot peppers. I grew ghost peppers last year thinking that surely they won’t touch those. They would pull them off, put them…
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The leaves on my dwarf rhododendron have little white spots.
What is the cause and how do I treat it?…
The snow has melted, and I find ample tree branch clippings around the bases of my trees, in particular Evergreen. They have been pruned off by the squirrels. I noticed a comment here about using Skoot as a deterrent. It…
Lily beetles ate my Asiatic lilies. Do they also eat Oriental lilies? I know they don’t eat daylilies.…
I have two digiplexis plants. They are not hardy here. I’ve had them for 3 years. This year they were infested by house flies when I had them out in the garden.
I don’t know where the house flies lived…
Former southern Ont resident now in zone 3. Have several clumps of Magnus or Ruby Star Echinacea. Last year some clumps (in part sun) have green cones but lack petals. Happened again this year. Is it a virus and if…
Hello,
I’m looking for tactics I can use against curculios attacking my Walnut trees (black walnut, English walnut, and heartnut).
The weevil lays eggs into developing nutlets and new growth.
I pick up aborted nutlets and prune off infected foliage…
I have an extensive cacti collection with some almost 20 years old. They spend the summer outside and the winter they are dormant in the basement. This past winter the mealybugs got out of hand, and while I was able…
