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Photo of the Week
Maple anthracnose, caused by several different fungi, are quite rampant this year due to cooler temps and frequent rains.
Category Archives: Weekly Nursery Landscape Report
IPM This Week – July 11
Click HERE for the AUDIO version of this blog post. Frequent precipitation events continue to shower outdoor ornamentals with too much love. Leaf diseases are rampant, making plants … Continue reading
Boxwood Leafminer Adults Abound!
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?
Rough Winds Do Shake the Darling Buds of May
Click HERE for the AUDIO version of this blog post. We are seeing wind tattering damage on tender … Continue reading
Leps are languishing…. time for biocontrol
Seeing holes in leaves on deciduous trees? This majestic sugar maple was showing interveinal holes and closer inspection revealed fall cankerworm (Alsophila pometaria) larvae on the leaf undersides. Larvae are pale green (although you’ll … Continue reading
Welcome May 24 Weekend!
What a treat! Several of our sugar maples are blooming this year all over southern Ontario, from Barrie to Niagara, these native beauties are gracing our landscapes with blooms. Its been 5 years since sugar maples were blooming like this. The cooler weather continues! Climatologists are predicting that our daytime temperatures will stay moderate until about the […]
Welcome LO Nursery Scout and OMAFRA Students!
Welcome to our new 2017 LO Nursery Scout and OMAFRA Summer Student! Melissa Huntley (left) and Andrea Badder (right) have been working diligently to scout for pests and abiotic issues in nursery crops. The cold, … Continue reading
Posted in Insects, IPM, Weather, Weekly Nursery Landscape Report
Tagged andrea badder, bugfinder, dave cheung, Jen Llewellyn, melissa huntley
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April Showers, Bring May Diseases
This cooler weather has been a nice break, slowing down plant development and reducing heat and desiccation stress on newly planted or harvested nursery stock. We inched up a little in Growing Degree Days and Plant Phenology this week.
