Q. My peonies have good foliage, however the last two years they grow tall stems have heavy flowers that fall to the ground and don’t last long. Lora Fleener – Vernal, Utah A. The flowers are not lasting very long because of their contact with the soil, which introduces soil microorganisms that begin to precipitate…
Year: 2005
Black Spot on Roses
Q. Black spots my rose leaves can you help? Evelyn Moore – Parkland, WA A. It’s that time of year again. One of the problems with many of gardener’s favorite roses is that they are susceptible to a common fungus called black spot. The breeding of roses over the centuries rivals the plots of afternoon…
Plant Identification Help
Q. I have a strange plant growing next to my walkway. How can I go about identifying it? Conrad Cinq-Mars – Gig Harbor, WA A. That all depends on how strange it is. If your neighbor’s name is Seymour and he feeds it blood it might be Audrey II. I think it is doubtful that…
Leaf blight on Western Red Cedar
Q. One of our cedar trees has brown tips on the needles in one area of the tree. Both pictures are of different sides of the same tree. The brown area developed almost overnight about three weeks ago. We have not done any digging or grading in the yard from 15 years. I hope you…
Peach Leaf Curl
Q. My peach trees have leaf curl. All information I’ve been able to find indicates that there’s nothing that can or should be done once the tree has leafed out, but that when all the leaves have fallen off the tree (presumably in the autumn, although one of the two is dropping the most severely…