Antique climbing rose buses

Question Hi how are u? I bought 4 antigue climbing rose bushes this august (I live in southeast texas about 2 hours south of Houston very close to Beaumont tx. And I have a problem with one that I just cant fi

Leylandii Hedge

QuestionHi Jim, I dont know if you can help me on this, I have a leylandii hedge, and this year it has turned brown, with little or no new growth. Several other similar hedges in the area have the same symptom

Disease on my fruitless muilberry?

QuestionQUESTION: I have a fruitless mulberry tree in my backyard which has leaves with brown splotches all over them. It is dropping a huge amount of leaves prematurely everyday...most are gone already.  

hedge dying

Questionmy box ornamental hedges have been lovely over the years now at random one will start turning yellow and die.I cannot find a bug or fungus...nothing works please help? AnswerWhat is your feeding and w

aloe plant

QuestionHi john I have two questions about my aloe plant. one is similar to a question I just read about mold on the top of the soil. It looks yellowish in color though instead of white. I have not watered it in ho

miniature dogwood

QuestionThe tips of the leaves on my dogwoods are turning brown. Is this a disease or does it need more water? They were planted about 3 months ago and have been turning brown for a few weeks. AnswerIt

Magnolia x Soulangiana, Rosea

QuestionDear Sir, I live in Florida and have a Magnolia x Soulangiana rosea, which is only two years old, in my yard. Last fall it had problems with the leaves. They began to have dark brown spots on them and eventi

Thick white fungus on sycamore tree

QuestionWe recently moved into a house with what we think is a sycamore tree (with maroon-ish broad leaves shaped similarly to a maple tree) in the front yard. In the past months it has developed what appears

Oak leaf problems

QuestionI have several oaks, Sand live oak (Quercus geminata) I am pretty sure. I just notices a lot of pure white, flossy material on the cupped underside of the leaves and in small spaces where twigs leave

Majasty Palm

QuestionI have numerous potted Majasty Palms. The ones on the front porch healthy...the one on the screened in back porch has recently developed lumps and bumps on several of its stems and has lost at least on

brown leaves on mandavilla

QuestionI recently(2 months ago) potted a red mandrill in a large 25 gallon pot.The weather in San Diego was above normal temperature. My sister also potted one at the same time and hers appears fine. The majority o

maple leaf disease?

Questionthe maple leaves on the 40 tree have what looks like spikes coming out of the top of the leaf. the spike is yellowish and some have died, brown. is it fungi, insects or what?? the tree has not experienced an

oak tree problems

QuestionI have what I believe is a large white oak in my front yard,with several others in the back yard. Some of them are not only starting to lose leaves, drop acorns, but they are also dropping small whit/tannish

Whiteflies on redbud

QuestionI have a newly planted (18 months) redbud in Zone 5B (Chicago, IL) that seems to have a heavy whitefly infestation. The leaves on fully half the shrub are yellowed and adult whiteflies are visible on the tru

Holly Infection

QuestionHi,my holly bushes have small white grub like infection on the underside of the leaves,and on the stems,the hedge is 6years old and we had three die this year in different areas,I have sprayed with a general

black spots on leaves

QuestionWe just planted a sunset maple this summer and it seemed to be doing just fine, but we just noticed black spots all over the leaves. Our nieghbors across the street got their maples at the same time

Discoloration of Oak Tree Bark

QuestionWe have an Oak Tree in our back yard, I believe it is an English Oak, and I have been finding a lot of small branches on the ground around the tree (its about 50 feet tall) and now noticed the back has two r

spider webs on dwarf yaupon holly

QuestionMy dwarf yaupon holly have spider webs all over them. The leaves turn brown near the webs and fall off until the whole bush is leafless. When you shake the bush, white flies fly out. This h

Blue Princess Holly Bush

QuestionI noticed white sticky blob like growths scattered on the branches of my Holly bushes. They are about the size of a pencil eraser. Ive scraped most of them off. They are soft and when removed smear easily wi

gull mites on florida ligustrum tree

Questionmy tree and ligustrum shrubs were diagnosed with gull mites. the buds on both the tree and shubes die,turning brown with no leaves. my tree is ok but is not leaf blooming. my l. shurbs are dying, have lost 8