Every week our Master Gardener call office receives questions similar to these. If it's an emailed question, there's usually a photo of a sad looking plant or tree attached. This week's column goes ...

Above: Hosta with symptoms of leaf spots and necrosis. Do your landscape plants have cankers, mosaics, galls, mummies, or witches’ brooms? These and other symptoms are often hard for the average ...

Like many garden writers, I spend a lot of time reading about plants and searching for answers to questions from readers. They want to know what's wrong with their plant and what to do about it.

As we progress into summer, our gardens may develop problems. Diagnosing what's wrong with your plants is like reading a mystery novel, except instead of figuring out the plot, you're trying to figure ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- On a beautiful summer day last week in Northeast Ohio, the birds were singing, cicadas were humming, and there was a spring in my step as I rounded the corner to pick some fresh ...

A: I’ve tested several plant identification apps and have found them surprisingly, but not completely, accurate. You simply ...

List the four major categories of causal agents of plant disease and label as biotic or abiotic. Answer = Plant Pathogens (biotic), Environmental factors (abiotic), Chemicals-fertilizers and ...

Vertigo may be the worst feeling of dizziness a person is forced to endure, but it is usually a relatively nonthreatening human frailty if you can find enough walls to hang onto. It’s a strange ...

As my wife and I were driving toward the Metroplex (a name as yet unused) in 1970, I was excited by my new job as a county extension horticulturist for Texas A&M. We tuned our radio to one of the ...