Evergreen trees such as pines, spruce and cedar often are most enjoyed during the Christmas holiday season. The bright lights, shining star and wide array of ornaments adorn the tree, helping to ...

Shown here is an intimidating and odd-looking fungal growth attached to a cedar branch. It is called cedar apple rust. The airborne spores growing on the leaves and fruit of an apple tree will infect ...

The caller on the other end of the phone was worried: Her apple trees had suffered severely last year from cedar-apple rust disease, and she wanted to know how to keep them from being attacked again.

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- ...

Are your cedar trees and junipers looking like they have been decorated for Christmas except the colors are all wrong? Bright orange "balls" are showing up all over the place?Relax. It's called ...

Q: Are there any apples that are resistant to cedar apple rust? My existing apples are eaten up with it. Answer: This has been a particularly bad year for cedar apple rust because of all of the rain ...

Question: Can you recommend some apple tree varieties that do well here that don’t need to be sprayed? I would love to grow my own organic apples! Answer: In our climate, organic apple production is ...

Many homeowners have been startled this spring by strange growths on juniper trees, sprouting orange tentacles like miniature sea anemones. The orange growths are nothing new, according to Sharon ...