Photo of the Week
Life’s A Beech! According to Rebecca Park (NVK Holdings). You can tell Rebecca really loves trees, especially these Fagus sylvatica ‘Dawyck Purple’. She was kissing and hugging them all goodbye :)
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Category Archives: landscape
Upcoming IPM Workshop for Landscape, Arboriculture and Garden Centre Pro’s
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IPM This Week – July 9, 2018
Fall webworm (Hyphantria cunea) are laying their eggs on foliage (Juglans, Prunus, Betula, Fraxinus) at this time (Photo: Charlotte Thomson, LO Nursery Scout). They have multiple generations per year and most people … Continue reading
Happy Summer Solstice (Yesterday) Eh?
One of the most filthiest scale insect pests known to horticulturalists, the Euonymus scale (Unaspis euonymi) is a tiny little armored scale that covets evergreen Euonymus fortunei in the garden or landscape. Adult females have a dark cover that is wider at the posterior end, sea-shell in appearance with white margins. The smaller males have […]
Posted in Insects, IPM, landscape, Nursery Production
Tagged bugfinder, dave cheung, Jen Llewellyn, onnurserycrops
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Boxwood Leafminer Adults Starting to Fly
Boxwoods in the landscape not looking so good coming out of the winter? Are you seeing a lot of yellow leaves? Can you see any yellow-green-brown spots?
Upcoming IPM Workshops for Landscape, Arboriculture and Garden Centre Professionals!
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Keep Protecting Susceptible Malus, Pyrus etc.
Fireblight (apple, pear, see above) and Apple Scab (apple) diseases are normally reproducing and spreading this time of year. This week we are more concerned about Apple Scab. The cool weather has really reduced the activity of fireblight bacteria and so the risk of fireblight is looking low again this week.
Posted in Diseases, IPM, landscape, Nursery Production
Tagged apple scab, fireblight, Jen Llewellyn, mike celetti
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