I have a gardenia that I keep indoors during cold weather. For a long time it has not bloomed and I see a white powder where it is supposed to form buds. Inside that waxy fluff are mealybugs. They are ...

Dorothy asks: I was spraying a mealy bug infestation on my gardenia and saw this large white furry insect on the underside of some of the leaves that looked kind of like a giant mealy bug. I sprayed ...

Question: Bill, I have a white, sticky, fuzzy fungus on my Sweetgrass plant. What can I do? I am retired now and my wife expects me to help her keep a nice yard when I’m not fishing or emailing jokes ...

Question. Our camellia hedge is blooming nicely but is thin at the base. Should we cut it back when the blooming stops or wait until spring to do the pruning? Answer. Enjoy the blooms now and wait ...

Have you ever encountered a white cottony mass on a garden plant and wondered what it is and what to do about it? Chances are the culprit is the mealybug. While more than 170 species of mealybugs ...

Gardenias are as synonymous with the Southern garden as azaleas, hydrangeas, and magnolias. Like a true “steel magnolia,” the eye-catching, intoxicating beauty (deep, evergreen leaves, snow-white ...

I was gifted a potted African violet, but I'm not sure how to take care of it. I have heard they are hard to keep alive. What can I do to care for this plant? African violets do have the reputation of ...

Last week, I wrote about the explosion of large patch, brown patch, and Zoysia patch. Over Thanksgiving weekend, the conditions were perfect for the disease triangle and the disease flourished. If you ...

The classic method of bug control—fight bug with bug—is still the best, cleanest and most economical. When it works ideally, the first bug is eliminated, and the second dies of starvation. More ...