Q: My mirror leaf viburnum plants are losing their leaves. This is an established privacy hedge, and I don't want to lose this green wall between me and the neighbors. The leaves get spots and then ...

America's favorite bedding flower is in big trouble, and that trouble has reached the Bay Area. Common impatiens, or Impatiens walleriana, once relatively free of pests, is now contracting a disease ...

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) - Frosty fall nights finish off lots of flowering annuals, cueing you to clean up your garden. But this year you have extra incentive to tidy up if you planted impatiens. Recently I ...

For two years in the row, my grapes have died. The leaves get rusty, the fruit slowly becomes black and some fruit get white powdery fuzz. I've treated it the past, but it doesn't seem to help. What ...

Now is the time for growers to come to the aid of their cucurbits and rise against downy mildew. Downy mildew is a water mold that destroys plant foliage and is common on cucurbits, a family of plants ...

Downy mildew, caused by a range of oomycete pathogens, remains a formidable challenge in agriculture, affecting numerous crops worldwide and resulting in significant yield losses. The pathogen’s ...

Impatiens have long been the most popular shade-loving annual for the Kansas City market. But the arrival of downy mildew to the area is causing us to rethink the use of this old-time favorite. It’s ...

The sky was not falling. Of that, Mary Hausbeck was certain. Yet everyone from backyard gardeners to large commercial plant growers were fretting three years ago about their wilting impatiens, many of ...

TRAVERSE CITY — Joe Biermacher is taking extreme measures to keep his hop yard healthy. He is ripping out plants hit hard by downy mildew, a fungus that infects the plants and can kill them or stunt ...

One of the most important factors for lima bean growers in Delaware and throughout the world is the ability to accurately measure and forecast disease occurrence in their fields during the growing ...