night blooming cereus

QuestionI have brownish-black spots developing on the leaves of my night blooming cereus. What is it and how do I treat it? Thanks. Melody AnswerIt sounds like you may be overwatering the cactus, causing a f

Peace Lilly

QuestionI received a very large healthy Peace Lilly as a gift. It seemed to be doing very well untill I noticed black spots on the leaves. They would start along the edges and then spread till the whole

Tree Moss? Infestation

QuestionI live in Central Florida and have a moss or some other type of plant parasite growing in my oak and other trees. This is not Spanish Moss, but rather a clump plant that is whitish gray with dry tan-co

Black tree trunk

QuestionWe have a Live Oak approximately 15 ft tall and the trunk is turning black. The blackness is from ground level to about 4 feet up the trunk and totally around it. There are not any insects that I can s

camellia bushes

QuestionI had five camellia bushes now i have 2 that arent dead yet. All the leaves are falling off . They have a green fungus or something on bush. The largest on I lost was six feet tall. Please help ! maybe i can

Black ends on lemons

QuestionI have a perfectly healthy looking lemon tree but many (but not all) of the fruits have a black spot on the bllom end as they ripen. What can I do to prevent this? Thanks! AnswerI am not a lemon exper

red tip disease

QuestionI have two hugh red tips that have developed a weird trunk disease. It is circular and appears to be bore holes that gradually eat at the bark and expand for about 6-8 inches up the affected trunk.I dont see

antracnosis

QuestionQUESTION: The maradol papaya sufferes from this disease antracnosis that causes holes in the fruit. Ive read of certain baths and treatments for this fruit to dampen the effects of that illness?

my tree has bugs!

Questionhi i have had my maple for 3 yrs and it has always done great,this yr his has black bugs ,very small ones,and if you move the tree ,the bugs fly away,i was wondering what to do to get rid of them?? pl

My Money Tree is getting strange on me!

QuestionIv had a money tree for almost 2 years now. I repotted it about 8 months ago. It seemed to do fine but now it is not looking so good. Some of the leaves are limp as if it were over or under watered and other

Peace Lily disease?

QuestionHello, I had bought a peace lily back in January and It is very healthy and vibrant although it had some browning on the tips . However, I have noticed that the leaves are starting to develop some h

Diseased Gardenias

Questioni have a bed of small gardenia plants at the edge of my front porch. Probably, 12 small bushes (very low to the ground). Last summer, they begin dropping the buds and this season the leaves are yellow and th

Sick friutless Mulberry tree

QuestionOur tree was incorrectly cut before we moved in our home. Some of the branches were cut way at the top of the tree as if they were trying to shape the tree and those limbs have mostly died at the tips and

Spider Plant Parasites?

QuestionI have 3 spider plants that have developed a sticky substance on their foliage. It looks like there is some sort of egg on the sticky parts of the foliage too. How do I get rid of it? I am concerned that it

ming aralia foul odor

QuestionQUESTION: I have a Ming Aralia house plant that seems to of recently developed a foul urine smell in the soil. I do not have any pets or children so I know one of them could not be the culprit. W

Diseased holly bush?

QuestionI have 2 holly bushes, one on the north side of my lawn which is affected. The leaves are turning yellow, with large black spots. and in addition, some have small white spots outlined in black. These leaves

Dracaena marginata

QuestionI have a Dracaena marginata it pretty young, has two big stems and each of them has like 3 smaller stems coming out of it, today I noticed that the bottom of one of the big stems is looking weird the bark lo

White oak - problem on leaves

QuestionQUESTION: I have a white oak in the yard that in the past 2 weeks has been getting small spots on the leaves (several areas per leaf, damage is under the top layer of the leaf, color so far is just pale gree

Stephanotis House plant.

QuestionHi , I had a thriving stephanotis in my conservatory. It was doing really well and flowering magnificently. Nothing changed and then suddenly all the leaves went yellow and dropped off and some of the vine s

Ornamental Crab Apple Tree

QuestionWe have two ornamental crab apple trees that are 6 years old and approximately 8-9 feet tall. This spring I noticed that one of the trees has red mounds growing from the tree trunk and branches.