Q. Some of our maple trees barely developed leaves at all, or bore seemingly stunted leaves this year – and now are dropping them, in August no less. There also seems to be an early “fall” on other trees, not just maple, around the area. Is this related to our extremely mild winter and possibly…
Year: 2005
Mystery plant is Jack-in-the-pulpit
Q. Can you identify this odd looking plant? It is 8 ¾” tall. The berry look-alike seeds on the top are 1/8 to 3/8” in size. No leaves. I first noticed it last year when there was a single stalk. This year there are three stalks, several inches apart. Other plants in the immediate area…
Girdled tree
Q. I have a number of large Thunder Cloud plum trees in my yard. My rambunctious and bored puppy decided to strip the bark off one of these trees (more than 75% of the trunk). I’ve read that it’s highly unlikely this tree will survive but is there anything I can do to try and…
what might be going wrong with the blueberry plants?
Q. I planted blueberry plants in the spring, they have been doing well, up until recently. The berries that were on the plants when I purchased them ripened, there’s new growth and some of them are flowering again. Recently, however, the leaves have begun to curl under and are starting to turn slightly yellow. The…
Chewing on my dahlias
Q. What is chewing on my dahlias and leaves little black specks all over? JoAnn Bernovich – Federal Way, WA A. For those readers enjoying their Saturday morning breakfast as they read this column, I urge you to skip over this answer until you finish eating. You have been warned. I believe that the little…