Look Closely for Lace Bugs
My Favorite Things - Plants - How About This One!
I love plants and proudly claim the titles of plant nerd, tree-hugger, plant geek and any others like this. Plants of all kind - perennials, annuals, trees, shrubs, vegetables, native plants, etc. intrigue and delight. How can you not like them! One of my garden plants that looks particularly good right now is Calamagrostis x acutiflora 'Karl Foerster' or Karl Foerster feather reed grass. This grass is stellar and it's no wonder it's used quite a bit in both commercial landscapes and home gardens. 'Karl Foerster' was named the Perennial Plant of the Year by the...
Rosaceous Rusts Rampage
Rust on serviceberry? Yes. Has the whole world gone mad? No. It just reveals itself to each of us in manageable gulps. We talk frequently of three “cedar rusts” on BYGL: cedar apple rust, cedar hawthorn rust, cedar quince rust, all caused by separate species in the fungal genus Gymnosporangium (bygl.osu.edu/node/781). In fact, it is not as simple as this – there are over 40 species of the Gymnosporangium fungus.
Not only that, but there are over 480 species in 11 genera of the rose family (Rosaceae) that are affected by Gymnosporangium ...
Magnolia Scale is Pumping-Out Honeydew
Marginal Leaf Fold Galls on Oaks and Black Locust
1st Generation Scarlet Oak Sawfly Larvae
Squiggly Lines on Magnolia Leaves
Maple Anthracnose
Jeff Stachler, OSU Extensioneer in Auglaize County sent the following message this past Tuesday on June 6:
“A maple tree in the front of a home yard has leaves with the symptoms you see in the photos. Veins and leaf tips are black with yellow and brown colors below the black. Is there anything that can be done or should be done?” He also sent the tell-tale photo above, showing “water-soaked” darkish lesions along leaf veins.
Right on time. Last June 5, I took a picture of a neighbor’s red maple in Doyletown in northeast Ohio of the same problem: maple...