It’s no secret that gardeners battle with insects in their flower gardens every year. In rose gardens, the bristly rose slug can be a nemesis, often leaving gardeners confused as to why their roses ...

May and June are glorious times in the garden; if you’re a rose lover, it’s when most roses are at their peak of bloom. Nothing quite like a bush with beautiful blossoms framed by healthy green ...

Q: I hope you can help me with a pest that is chewing up my roses. It is a small, caterpillar-like animal. I was told it is not a caterpillar but a crawler and thus does not react to BT. This seems ...

Question: Back in May, I noticed that the leaves on my rose bushes started to get holes in them and turn brown. Now they are very defoliated, and many of the lower leaves left have a skeletal ...

This spring my 5-year-old rose showed little holes. I sprayed horticultural oil topside and under leaves. Last week it was covered with green worms. I cut back the entire plant leaving only the stump.

Damage from rose slugs. Submitted. When we hear the word insects our first thought is something bad. But there are a number of good guys active in the landscape.This week let’s take a look at an ...

I’m getting a bumper crop of these fuzzy wild strawberries. Are they edible? These aren’t edible. They aren’t even strawberries. They are an entirely different species passing for strawberries. Indian ...

Friendly insects come to the rescue; it’s all the more reason to avoid pesticides, so natural predators can go after the real pests Natural predators in the garden are our least expensive, most time ...

I understand it may be blight. The plants are completely dead. I planted Better Boy and Beefmaster varieties this year. I have heard there is danger of spreading this disease if the plants are not ...

Along the central and northern California coast, a certain rose has been blooming like crazy—the Hopkins’ rose nudibranch, a type of sea slug. Adorned with a spray of bright pink appendages, the slug, ...