Plants Japanese Beetles Tend to Avoid
Japanese beetle season is upon us or almost upon us, depending on where you live. Not that Japanese beetles (PopiliaContinue Reading
Category: Plant pests
American Elms Resistant to Dutch Elm Disease
The American elm (Ulmus americana), with its large size and outstanding arching umbrella habit, was long considered the ideal streetContinue Reading
What Makes Hydrangea Leaves Stick Together?
The ever-popular ‘Annabelle’ hydrangea (Hydrangea arborescens ‘Annabelle’), with its big pompoms of white flowers is often attacked by the hydrangea leaf-tierContinue Reading
Hose Down Your Houseplants
On a nice spring day, put houseplants sensitive to spider mites (Tetranychus urticae)—tiny little dustlike arthropods—outdoors and hose them down.Continue Reading
A Gardening Rhyme
There’s a very old rhyme variations of which have been circulating in gardening circles since at least the mid-19th century, probably muchContinue Reading
Quarantine Your New Houseplants
When you bring a new houseplant into your home, it’s always wise to put it in isolation at first soContinue Reading
Root Mealybugs: Death From Below
You thought that no houseplant pest could be worse than the common mealybug? That just goes to show that youContinue Reading
Bugs that Jump When You Water
You’re watering a houseplant when you notice something very tiny, possibly whitish or gray, that springs up into the airContinue Reading
A Homemade Sticky Trap
Generations of gardeners have been using yellow sticky traps to catch unwanted flying insects. Think back to the yellow flyContinue Reading
Aphids on Houseplants
You brought your houseplants back indoors a few weeks back and everything is going pretty well, except one plant seemsContinue Reading