white substance on robellini palm

Questioni have a robellini palm, in the ground, we live in north fla. the new growth is covered with a powdery white substance,the palm is about 4 yrs. old, and has been free of disease,had some freeze damage this

rose of sharon and crape myrtle

QuestionHey Jim, I have several rose of sharon and crape myrtles both seem to have a grayish/white looking what I might call a sheath of a hard covering kind of leafy. Itll peel off, but appears to be killing

hollies

QuestionMy young hollies had some black spots , then curling leaves, now all leaves are brown and dry but not falling yet.I tried a soap to rid of aphids etc. trying to use only organic treatments, but n

Cleveland Pear tree infestation?

QuestionI have a 8 Cleveland Pear, which Ive had for nearly 8 years. It has survived strong winds, sweltering heat & Fay; I live in Callahan FL where most of everything Ive chosen to plant has done well.  

gardenia problems

QuestionI have a gardenia plant that has very special meaning to my family. We are having a couple of issues that we would like to find a cure for. The first issue is that some of the leaves are turning

Gardenia bushes

QuestionMy gardenia bushes has some Black substance on some the leaves I live in Florida AnswerThis sounds like sooty mold. Sooty mold fungi grows on a substance called honeydew. Honeydew is secreted by sucking ins

Red Apple ground cover plant

QuestionQUESTION: Hi, I have red apple on a hillside & it has turned brownish-yellow. I have gone to the local nursery they mentioned I was watering to much (my plants have been this way for 7-8 months).

Old Mulberry Tree dying

QuestionCan I save my giant 30 year old bearing Mulberry Tree. Last year, this main shade tree in our front had several branches that did not leaf out and bark was coming loose in several areas. I found

Italian Cypress (Washington State)

QuestionQUESTION: I live in Washington State, the wet eastside of it. I have 10 Italian cypress trees. I planted the trees three years ago and they are about 10 feet tall now, the first three years

bamboo trees

QuestionMy downhill neighbor in Southern California is planting both types of bamboo trees at his backyard limits which eventually will grow up to my view...of course then blocking the view. Can I do anything to pre

Foam around my trees!

Question tree foam I have some trees in my back yard, which I think started out as a privacy hedge, but Ive lived in my house for 2 years and today I noticed that there is large amounts of foam around the base of ea

light green growth on all sorts of trees in yard

QuestionWe moved into our house over a year ago, there are all sorts of trees in the yard, sweet gum, maples, oaks, dogwood. We are in Northwest VA. The evergreens do not have this green growth on them. The green st

TREES FUNGUS ???

QuestionI LIVE ON THE GULF COAST IN ALABAMA. I HAVE A WATER OAK, MAGNOLIA, AND A POPCORN TREE. THEY ARE ALL AROUND 20 YEARS OLD. THE OAK MAY BE OLDER. TWO ARE IN MY FRONT YARD, ONE IS IN THE BACK YARD. I HAVE NOTICE

Strange spots on leaves

QuestionLeaf spots QUESTION: Hello, I found some strange spots on the underside of the leaves on my Arizona Sweet Orange Tree. They are Blackish Brown in color. The spots are only found on some

Leaves falling off

QuestionI have a rose tree and the leave are falling off. I have sprayed for Afids but the branches are getting more and more bare, even the ones that have new buds. Some of the leaves are turning yellow

Oak Tree Disease (NJ)

QuestionQUESTION: My oak tree has a greenish white looking scale. A limb fell and it had strings of brown rubbery lesions (?) on it. When the sun cme out these strings of whatever began to melt. I have never seen an

Disease on Loblolly Pine

Question Loblolly tree disease Tree is 3.5 ft. in diameter. Bark is falling off around the base (approx. 25 percent of the base) One diagnosis was fusiform rust, but I dont think that is correct. I dont

Powdery Mildew on Orange Citrus Tree leaves

Question powedery mildew on cit My young orange tree has developed these cottony spots on the TOP of its denser leaves. I have looked all over the net and the only thing that seems to look similar is powdery mildew,

sticky substance all over meyer lemon tree

QuestionQUESTION: Hi- I have a year old meyer lemon tree in a pot. Last spring I got it with one gree lemon which never turned yellow. It flowered and flowered but never produced another fruit. I brought it inside f

Buring Bush - something on Branches

QuestionI have 4 Burning bushes next to each other. Overthe the wintee they developed something on the branches. Its white in color and cottony in texture and I can easily rub them off with my finger. &n