Q. I generally leave a lot of the garden/ yard work to my hubby; however, I’ve become concerned – as is he – about the health of our Asian Pear tree. The branches have become all black as have most ...

Fireblight has been on the increase in the Denver metro area. It is a difficult disease to control and can kill the trees it infects, typically apples, crabapples, and mountain ash, and other species, ...

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Anyone growing Asian pear or Bartlett European pear should be on the lookout for fireblight disease, which has been rearing its ugly head over the past couple of weeks. The strong winds are a big part ...

My flowering crabapple has some funny-looking branches on it now. The branches have brown leaves that appear to have dried up at the ends and are not falling off the tree. What is happening and what ...

Q: I have a gnarly pear tree specimen that is an important tree in the design of my garden. The fruit look like Bartletts. However, it has serious fireblight. My tree man says it's time to cut it down ...

This spring has provided ideal conditions for fire blight attacks on local pear trees and other susceptible plants. Fire blight is a bacterial disease that is often devastating to both ornamental and ...

Fireblight, a bacterial disease that infects many trees and shrubs in the rose family, showed such a horrendous degree of infection this year that I wrote two columns on it last spring (May 16 and 30) ...