Apples are susceptible to several serious diseases, including apple scab, cedar-apple rust, fire blight and powdery mildew. These diseases can disfigure the leaves and the fruit, reduce the yield ...

One type of rust disease known as cedar apple rust can also infect your fruit trees and spoil your harvest. You can apply a ...

Rust disease will manifest in these tiny, brownish, spore protrusions on the leaves of the apple or pear trees. At that point in the disease life cycle, spraying will help minimize the spread but ...

Plant this tree in full sun in Zones 5 to 8, and watch it grow 8 to 10 feet tall. One popular columnar apple tree cultivar, ...

Joellen Dimond discusses fall garden tips, and Mr. D. talks about apple tree diseases. This week on The Family Plot: Gardening in the Mid-South, University of Memphis Director of Landscape Joellen ...

Infected trees develop circular rings on the leaves and orangish horned growths on the young fruits, which drop the rusty-orange powder onto surfaces below. Ohioans who reported raining infections ...

With our recent rainy weather, you may have noticed bright orange orbs with gelatinous tendrils on our native eastern red cedar and ornamental cedars (Juniperus spp.). These are the galls of the cedar ...

When conditions are ripe, even resistant trees may exhibit some symptoms of the disease. Learn best practices for dealing with this year's scab on the U of M website . First, the WHITE varieties: ...

According to the Minnesota Department of Agriculture (MDA), Japanese apple rust, a fungal plant pathogen, has been discovered at several orchards and nurseries in Dakota, Rice and Scott counties.