When battling plant diseases in the garden or landscape, knowing what conditions encourage disease can be helpful in preventing or reducing damage during the growing season. Obviously plant pathogens, ...

It may take two to tango, but three things are required to make a plant sick. An understanding of this fundamental "Plant Disease Triangle" forms a basis for managing plant health. The first "side" of ...

With the cool, wet weather comes the bane of gardeners — plant diseases. Diseases are generally bad news, whether it’s black spot on your roses, rust on your rhododendrons, downy mildew on your ...

Every season brings a new slate of plant pathogens to our Florida lawns and gardens. Luckily, there are many tactics we can employ to help reduce their impact. Florida generally has a warm, humid ...

All of us have had problems with disease in our garden or lawn at some time. It may be black spot on roses, blight on tomatoes, powdery mildew on a lilac hedge, fungus on the lawn, or tip blight on ...

Scientists from the plant pathology department at Texas A&M University say plants have a lot to teach us about how diseases spread. One of the major lessons is the disease triangle, a way to ...

There could be a fungus among us, at least in our gardens. Bacteria and viruses too, as well as water molds and nematodes. Plants get sick, too. So, this week, we’ll focus on plant diseases and what ...

Given that the current weather forecast has cooler-than-normal temperatures and that most gardeners have planted flowers in the landscape, we may see botrytis cropping up in the next few days.