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Can All Houseplants Go Outside in Summer?
A whole lot of bonding has happened, and you’ve forged a closeness akin to family with your houseplants this year. But when summer arrived, you needed to turn your attention…
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A Hole in Every Host Plant
Many gardeners want immaculate foliage, but to us perfect foliage means there aren’t enough caterpillars munching leaves to produce the diaphanous moths and bright-colored butterflies that we want. Many folks…
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Design
Designing a Stylish Pollinator Garden
A few years ago, in an effort to try to help dwindling butterfly and bee populations, my partner Mikel and I plowed up an acre of invasive bittersweet on the…
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What’s Wrong with My Coneflower?
Several diseases and pests affect coneflowers. While your coneflowers may never get any of them, it can be troubling if they do. Powdery mildew This disease typically occurs in overly…
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Tree MD
Just like human health, the health of trees can be affected by a range of factors and some can be more apparent than others. The most common causes of ill…
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How to Treat Needle Drop on Evergreen Conifers
This is a symptom that can signal anything from a severe tree problem to no problem at all. 1. What it looks like All the needles on a conifer begin…
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Yellow Leaves on Red Maples and Pin Oaks—What Does It Mean?
These popular landscape trees generally start declining within one to two years of planting. 1. What it looks like Leaves turn yellow, but the veins remain green. 2. How to…
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Treat Winter Injury to Your Trees
Winter injury is among the most common tree problems experienced in colder areas of the country. 1. What it looks like Winter injury actually includes several different plant problems that…
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Northern Plains May Garden To-Do List
Tend to your lawn. If you haven’t had to mow your cool-season turf yet, you soon will, so take advantage of the time now and sharpen your mower blades. This…
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Southwest May Garden To-Do List
Welcome to May in the Southwest. With social distancing and so much staying at home, we’re sure everyone’s gardens are getting the attention they need. But in case you still…