A Rose Wilting in Full Leaf: Root, Cane or Water
A rose wilting while its leaves are still green and fully expanded, not yellowed or dropped, points to one of three problems: a blocked cane, a damaged…
A Hydrangea Wilting With Wet Soil
A hydrangea with drooping leaves standing in soaked soil is not thirsty. It’s suffocating.
What Eats Potato in Kansas, and When
The Colorado potato beetle is the pest most likely to strip a Kansas potato patch bare, and it starts feeding as soon as young foliage appears in spring.
What Eats Parsnip in Kansas, and When
Only two of the pests Kansas gardeners hear about most turn up on parsnip: blister beetle and grasshopper.
Drying Hydrangea Flowers So They Keep Their Color
The color you see on a hydrangea bloom the day you cut it is the color you’re stuck with when it dries.
What Eats Beet in Kansas, and When
K-State Research and Extension documents ten garden and landscape pests for Kansas, but only two of them actually feed on beet foliage: blister beetle…
Roseslugs: Leaves Turned to Windowpanes
Translucent, papery patches on rose leaves that let light through like a windowpane are the calling card of roseslugs, the larvae of a small sawfly.
Spider Mites on Hydrangeas: Stippled Leaves in a Hot, Dry Spell
Fine gray-bronze stippling across the leaf surface, a dusty look you can’t wipe off with a thumb, and maybe a scrap of fine webbing tucked in a leaf…
Rose Mosaic Virus: Yellow Patterns That Came With the Plant
Yellow line patterns, wavy mottling, or oak-leaf shapes stamped across rose foliage usually mean rose mosaic virus.
Rust on Hydrangeas: Orange Pustules Under the Leaf
Orange, powdery pustules crowding the underside of a hydrangea leaf point to rust, a fungal disease that shows up most often on panicle hydrangea late in…