Q: I have a ten-year old windmill palm that has gotten a bloom on it for the first time. In fact it has three separate pods. Are these seeds or what? A: The yellow sprays are not seed – they are flowers. A
Q: On New Year's Day a party guest raised a question I hope you can solve. Is it possible to grow an olive tree from an olive pit? We've grown an avocado from a pit. Why not olives? A: An olive tree
Q: Is ‘Mona Lavender' plectranthus an annual or a perennial? I recently purchased two and the garden center listed them as full sun perennials. Other references say the plant is an annual. A: If you
Q: I bought a plant from Piccadilly Farms, near Bishop, GA, some years ago and have lost the name since then. The plant is evergreen and the blooms appear in early May. It is growing on a dry slope in my back yar
Q: Do you know how to control mosquito fern, Azolla caroliniana? It has completely covered the surface of my backyard ornamental frog pond. I've used a net to skim off much of it, but it reproduces so quick
Q: Can you tell me what this is on my maple tree? It seems to be on much of the lower foliage. Your advice on this strange phenomenon will be appreciated. A: You have maple eyespot gall. Although it looks like a
Q: Every year my peaches are covered by little black spots. I have golf ball sized fruit now and it is beginning again. What should I do? A: The better question might be "What should I have done?" Pea
Q: I have a client that wants information about liquid aerating. I am not familiar with this. I looked online and the companies claim that it breaks the bonds that hold the clay particles together, releasing the
Q: I am puzzled by twigs dropping from the three-year old crepe myrtles in our yard. Three weeks ago I noticed several small branches had fallen around the tree. We did have more wind than usual the night before.
Q: Being a nice guy I'm only wanting to catch the bunny that has been eating all the morsels in my garden and take him about four miles away and release him in a wooded area. I purchased a cage for the cri
Q: I have a ‘Dark Eyes' Fuchsia and would like to plant it in the yard. Is this a wise thing to do? A: You are welcome to plant it but I can't guarantee success. In the first place, fuchsia doe
Q: I have one Japanese boxwood out of six that has had sections die off. I trim out the dead parts hoping they will fill in. The rest of the bush looks healthy and I have seen no signs of this in the other five b
Q: I just purchased an asparagus fern and the roots have big bumps on them. Are these root galls or nematodes? Is this bad? A: The swollen parts are normal – just root nodules where water is stored. If you
Q: Do you have any idea what this plant in my garden is? A: It's common mallow, Malva sylvestris. A look at the flowers and leaves reminds me that it is kin to the much-larger hollyhock. Mallow has striki
Q: There doesn't seem to be a good supply of bees this year. How will this affect the development of my corn? A: It won't hurt your corn crop at all. Corn pollen is distributed by wind. Rainy weather
Q: I have about a dozen fothergilla bushes. I just noticed that one of them has strange cone-like shapes growing out of the leaves! None of the others have anything like this. What in the world is this? A: Fother
Q: I would like to try to grow a few olive trees in Gainesville. Am I setting myself up for failure? I am thinking of keeping them in large pots to give them very sandy soil. A: I am always amazed at what can b
Zoysiagrass – Late to Green Up
Q: Why is zoysiagrass so late to green up each year? Our lawn looks like it isn't coming in well. A: Yes – in some years zoysiagrass won't be completely green until June. It might be caused b
Q: This fungus keeps popping up in my beds. It occurred once last year and three times this year. I have a feeling it has to do with the mulch. Last year's mulch was bought in one bulk load and this year
Acetic Acid – Use as Herbicide
Q: I have a dachshund who – even though we kept him away from the area for 24 hours – wheezed and got red eyes when we used Roundup the last time. Consequently, we stopped using it and now have a bac
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