It looks like an incredibly bad case of Black Knot fungus with some kind of parasitic fungus making white patches on it. It's probably not worth...
Wendy, YVR missed beating the record low for Aug 23: 16.1 C; but it was close.
All this study tells me is that the commercial potting soil that they used is not very good and needs some sand in it to improve it. I've used...
Perhaps it's part of the general decline of insect populations that has been noted for the past several years. I've noticed several beneficial...
According to some websites, clubroot spores can last up to 20 years; but I managed to rid my garden of most clubroot with a 7 year rotation cycle....
Some pathogen killed an azalea that we've had in a pot for over 10 years. It lost some branches over the last two years and finally died...
I see at least 2 ants in the first photo and 3 in the second (photos in new tabs can be magnified to show the ants clearly). So, I would...
Thanks, Wendy. After looking at your photos along with Google images and reading some more about R. nakaharae, I suspect that this azalea might...
https://globalnews.ca/news/10595010/bc-dont-move-firewood-emerald-ash-borer/ At least it won't affect native trees in our forests. Ironically, I...
@Margot, thanks for the offers. I'll keep 'Pink Pancake' in mind; I just wonder if it would be as good as or better than R. nakaharae as a ground...
Upon reading Douglas Justice's June in the Garden article, I became interested in Rhododendron nakaharae as a ground cover. I decided to see if I...
The soil in the pot looks pretty dry; taro likes damp soil that should never be allowed to dry out. And the pot looks a bit small for this plant.
