DEAR JESSICA: Every October, I pick and save seeds from my morning glory pods. (I do leave some on the plants.) Coming back from Florida late this year, I didn’t sow until the third week in May. They ...

DEAR JESSICA: We have a beautiful weeping cherry on our front lawn, but its leaves are dropping, brown and curled. My husband found some pinkish/reddish “gunk” on a part of the tree, scraped it off ...

Dear Neil: What would be causing the slow death of our dwarf gardenias? These green leaves on the left and yellowed leaves on the right are both on the same plant. We have two other plants on either ...

Spring is in full swing, and many people find they have plenty of time to garden. Turn to Ask an Expert, an online question-and-answer tool from Oregon State University’s Extension Service, for help ...

Last year in one of your articles, you talked about rust disease on plants, and as I remember, you mentioned there was something we could do in the spring to help us protect our plants against this ...

The sun is visiting now and then, colorful blooms are everywhere and we're feeling the urge to get outdoors. It's gardening time. Got a question? Get answers from Ask an Expert, an online question-and ...

Some of us are starting to notice yellow-orange spots on the leaves of their ornamental or fruiting pear trees. These spots begin in the late spring on the upper surface of leaves, approximately 1/8 ...

This is a plant disease topic we usually talk about later in the season, but with the warm weather we have been having, it’s likely that rust season will start a little earlier this year. And when we ...

Pear rust is an extremely common pear problem that affects both ornamental and fruiting pear trees. The disease is called cedar-hawthorn rust and often causes only aesthetic damage in the form of 1/8- ...

The orange rust on pear leaves won’t hurt the tree. Pear rust, Scott Evans says, is taking the city by storm. The fungus is turning pear leaves orange and seems to be the focus of about every third ...

ROCKVILLE CENTRE, N.Y. (CBSNewYork)-- Trees are under attack by a hard-to-control fungus that's been making the rounds, wiping out beautiful street and backyard pear trees across the area. "You can ...