Q: Can you tell me what is happening to my tree? Can I save it? A: Great pictures – they give me a lot of information. First, looking at the whole tree, I see the limbs are thinly foliaged and there are spr
Q: I collect daylilies and my ‘Pandora's Box' and ‘TC Red', do not seem to be doing too well this year. Is this daylily rust and, if so, is it curable? A: Daylily rust is a relati
Spider Mite – Foxglove, Hollyhock, Juniper
Q: My foxgloves looked wonderful for a while then became increasingly ‘fried' looking. Was it too much sun or drought or some fungus among us? I haven't seen any webs from spider mites, and ha
Q: Can you tell me what kind of flower this is and where I can buy the seeds? It is growing along side the road between Buena Vista and Americus, GA. A: It's a pretty blue cornflower, Centaurea cyanus. You
Q: What is wrong with my ‘Heritage' raspberries? About 25% are healthy green but the rest look like this. A: It sure looks like raspberry virus. Raspberries and blackberries are susceptible to severa
Q: We have a large white oak that had a large chunk of bark knocked off when inadvertently struck by a neighboring tree being removed. The wound is twelve inches wide by thirty inches high located six feet off th
Hickory Horned Devil – Young form
Q: Can you tell me what in heck these caterpillars are? A: According to my friends at BugGuide, you found the immature caterpillars of the hickory horned devil, which eventually turns into the beautiful Regal mot
Q: I have a three year old sycamore tree. No leaves have appeared yet; should I be concerned? I ask this because all of the other trees in my subdivision seem to have leaves on them already. A: Like the Monty
Q: We've done everything "by the book" to have a great lawn. We aerated and overseeded last October and again in April. We planted the most expensive grass seed and the lawn has been gorgeous. N
Honeybee – Comb Left After Swarm
Q: I found these wax combs on a bush in my front yard in May. There were no signs of insects in the comb or around it on the bush. The cone is some type of wax. Can you please identify the builder? A: You fou
Q: I have a 50+ year old pear tree that suddenly has shown signs of distress. After blooming and developing some fruit, the tips of some branches began to turn brown. It looks a little like freeze damage. The p
Bermuda – Removing Fescue in Summer
Q: My back lawn was originally seeded with fescue and the front lawn was sodded with bermudagrass. Over the years bermudagrass has spread through the back yard. At this point I think that if I could get rid of t
Bermudagrass – Spring Dead Spot
Q: Our lawn is three years old and most likely infected with Spring Dead spot disease. We have bermudagrass sod in our front yard and have numerous brown spots which seem to be worsening now in late May.
Carpetgrass – In Centipede Lawn
Q: Last summer I planted a grass mixture in our newly graded lawn. It had carpetgrass to fill in quickly and centipedegrass to establish more slowly. Now I have mostly carpetgrass, quite a few blobs of centiped
Q: I think I've heard you say that mimosa trees get a disease that kills them before they grow large. I've seen a huge one near Lenox Park. Will it die? A: It is true that mimosa trees die after only
Q: I want to kill a mimosa stump. Every time I cut it down sprouts reappear. A: Some trees and vines are impossible to kill just by cutting them down. Their roots and stump are primed to sprout after you cut off
Q: The other morning you were talking on the radio about your lawn and it sounded like you have St. Augustine grass. We would love to plant St. Augustine but I hear it's a gamble in Atlanta due to the col
Q: I found this giant moth in the yard. What is it? A: You found a beautiful polyphemus moth! This flying creature is found in wooded areas. Its equally distinctive caterpillar is bright green and up to three in
Q: Does Georgia have Poison Oak plants? A: Poison oak, Toxicodendron pubescens, does grow in Georgia but it is MUCH less common than people think. Poison oak leaves tend to have rounded lobes rather than pointed
Q: What is this interesting-looking plant I found flowering in the woods? A: Striped pipsissewa, Chimaphila maculata, was one of the first forest plants taught to me by Dr. Frank Fitch, wildlife biologist at Rock
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