Gardening Insecticide News

Gardening: Protecting your pink hibiscus

As I mentioned in my last column, many pests can feed on hibiscus making this a very high maintenance choice for your landscape. Chewing insects include caterpillars, grasshoppers, snails and slugs, beetles, cut worms and leaf miners. Piercing-sucking insects include scale, mealybugs, spider mites, aphids, whiteflies and thrips. These pests are more of a problem in areas of poor circulation. The ...

Sharon Hull, This Week in the Garden: Work now for fantastic fruit trees, roses later

Many of us think of winter as a time to take it easier, and a time to recharge our gardening batteries.

Master Gardeners: Keeping your houseplants green and growing

Keeping your indoor plants in shape only takes a bit of know-how

Spring Cottage: crop rotations

Val Bourne gets planning for her next round of crop rotation.

The Root of It All: Houseplants with issues

I brought in a mandevilla vine this fall to overwinter and am finding white, fuzzy spots on the leaves. It seems to be spreading, and I am seeing this fuzz appear on the hibiscus also. Do you know what this is and what I should do about it? Also, the plants have been dropping a lot of leaves. Should I be worried? - Donna, Racine.

Margaret Lauterbach: Take care of your birch trees

Many of us love white-barked trees, but few of us actually have them as bright spots in their yards. In our area, white-barked means birch or aspen.