Joellen Dimond talks about sedums, and Mr. D. demonstrates spraying peach trees. This week on The Family Plot: Gardening in the Mid-South, University of Memphis Director of Landscape Joellen Dimond ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Beetle kill is real. My fear of losing majestic pine trees around our neighborhood and in our yard is palpable. Witnessing the loss of seven big trees on a ...

This is the perfect time of year to be thinking about spraying trees during their dormant season. I’ll give two examples of conditions which warrant spraying: fungal infection and pest infestation.

WASHINGTON — The District’s annual effort to quash the stench of ginkgo fruit is set to begin Monday, May 1. Each spring, the District Department of Transportation sprays female ginkgo trees with a ...

Maybe gardeners aren’t busy in Minnesota or Iowa during the winter, but for gardeners living in the Mojave Desert, it is probably our busiest time of year. I’m asked about spraying dormant oils on ...

In the eleventh hour of the Trump administration, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency approved the use of streptomycin, a critically important antibiotic for human medicine, as a pesticide on ...

It's time to start working on managing pests in your fruit and landscape trees this year. Springtime is starting, even if it is delayed a bit from the normal timing. Given the huge differences in ...

WORCESTER (AP) -- Federal officials say more than 95,000 trees in the Worcester area are in line for chemical treatment this spring in the ongoing battle against the invasive Asian longhorned beetle.

LAKE COMO — The guys who work for Monture Creek Land Management, the company that’s been contracted by the Bitterroot National Forest to spray insecticide at popular campgrounds this summer in an ...

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