Q. For years we have been fighting a losing battle with an anthracnose infected dogwood. We finally decided to cut and remove it this fall. However, next to the dogwood is a mountain ash that has also been infected, but not as severe. With the removal of the dogwood, will we have better success against…
Category: Northwest U.S. Gardeners
Gardening questions from WA, OR, ID, MT & WY
What’s the matter with my front lawn?
Q. Peter: Any idea what’s the matter with my front lawn? Photo’s enclosed. It is about six years old, new sod installed by Blue Sky Nursery, replacing an old lawn. They also went down about a foot/foot and ½ replacing the soil. We had an older gentleman mowing our lawn for several years and continued…
Maple early fall colors and drop
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…
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…