Q: What do I do about this shrub? It’s just this one side, and no other shrubs have been affected, at least so far. A: I am fairly certain that the plant that’s having the issue is a waxleaf ligustrum ...

Scab is the most common and damaging pecan disease. It is caused by the fungus, Cladosporium caryigenum. The fungus forms small, circular, olive-green to black spots on leaves, leaf petioles and nut ...

Dear Neil: What causes pecans to fall early (August and September) and be eaten up with a black fungus? We used to get 75 pounds of pecans from each of our two trees, but starting two years ago the ...

DEAR NEIL: Our mature pecan tree at our place in East Texas produced a bumper crop of pecans this year, but they were all rotten. We did not see any webworms or any other vermin. What could the ...