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Choosing the Right Landscape Plants: Factors to Consider
Author(s) Laura G. Jull. Properly placed and maintained landscape plants can increase the value of real estate. However, poor plant choices can b...
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Planning and Designing Your Home Landscape
Author(s) Dan A. Wilson, Thomas J. Wilson, Wayne G. Tlusty. This publication explores landscape planning: putting the plan on paper; selecting, p...
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Plants Not Favored by Deer
Author(s) Laura G. Jull. If deer visit your property, you've likely already experienced the frustration of having landscape plants destroyed overn...
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Making and Using Compost in the Garden
Author(s) Christine Wen, Joe Van Rossum. Making your own compost is an easy, practical, and satisfying way to make use of yard waste and table sc...
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Lilacs for Cold Climates
Author(s) Laura G. Jull. Lilacs for Cold Climates describes the best of the top-rated cold-weather cultivars. These are the gems that will survive...
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Colorado Blue Spruce and Other Conifers Disorder: Rhizosphaera Needle Cast
Author(s) M. F. Heimann, G. R. Stanosz Rhizosphaera needle cast occurs throughout the state of Wisconsin but infects only certain conifer species....
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Selecting Woody Landscape Plants for Fall Color: An Illustrated Guide
Author(s) Laura G. Jull. When selecting plants for landscaping, consider choosing ones that offer showy fall foliage. This beautifully illustrate...
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Pine Disorder: Dothistroma Needle Blight
Author(s) M. F. Heimann, G. L. Worf, R. F. Patton. Dothistroma needle blight causes needle spots, discoloration, and substantial needle loss in he...
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Evergreens Condition: Seasonal Needle Drop
Author(s) M. F. Heimann, P. J. Pellitteri. Despite their name, evergreen needles do not stay green forever. Older, inner needles discolor and drop...
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Conifers Disorders: Sphaeropsis Shoot Blight and Canker
Author(s) M. F. Heimann, G. R. Stanosz Sphaeropsis shoot blight and canker, formerly known as Diplodia, is a serious disease of many pine species ...
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The Basics of Micro Irrigation
Author(s) Scott Sanford, John Panuska. Micro irrigation has numerous advantages over sprinkler irrigation and can be used in greenhouses, orchard...
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Colorado Blue Spruce and Other Conifers Disorder: Cytospora Canker
Author(s) M.F. Heimann, G.R. Stanosz In Wisconsin, Cytospora canker is especially damaging to Colorado blue spruce, but it also affects Norway spr...
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Winter Salt Injury and Salt-Tolerant Landscape Plants
Author(s) Laura G. Jull. This publication focuses on recognizing and preventing plant damage caused by deicing salts, evaluates the pros and cons ...
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Shade Trees Disorder: Decline, Dieback, or Early Senescence
Author(s) M. F. Heimann, G. L. Worf. "Decline" is a general term that describes the deterioration of a tree's crown or an overall reduction in vig...
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Maple Decline: Collar Rot and Basal Canker Complex
Author(s) M. F. Heimann, G. L. Worf, J. E. Kuntz, M. J. Drilias. Research has demonstrated that many Wisconsin sugar maples are declining because ...
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Crabapple Disorder: Scab
Author(s) K. A. Delahaut, G. L. Worf, E. R. Hasselkus. In Wisconsin, scab is the most common ornamental-crabapple disease and is also the most imp...
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Woody Ornamentals Pest Management in Wisconsin
Author(s) Chris Williamson, P. J. Liesch, Jim Kerns, Roger Flashinski. Woody Ornamentals Pest Management in Wisconsin is an indispensable resource...
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Tree and Shrub Fertilization
Author(s) E. R. Hasselkus, E. E. Schulte. Explains what fertilizer you should use and how you should apply it to your deciduous trees, evergreens,...
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Scorch and Related Problems in Trees and Shrubs
Author(s) M. F. Heimann, G. L. Worf. Scorch, or the browning of leaf edges, affects a wide range of deciduous and evergreen plants throughout Wisc...
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Plant Injury Due to Turfgrass Broadleaf Weed Herbicides
Author(s) M. F. Heimann, R. C. Newman. When the herbicides used to kill broadleaf weeds in the lawn are applied on windy or hot days, they may end...
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Pine Disorder: European Pine Sawfly
Author(s) P. J. Pellitteri, D. L. Mahr, D. J. Hall. Early season defoliation of pines in southern Wisconsin may be attributed to European pine saw...
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Oak Wilt Management—What Are the Options?
Author(s) Jane Cummings Carlson, A. Jeff Martin, Kyoko Scanlon Thousands of oaks in woodland and urban settings die every year from oak wilt, a fu...
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Harvesting Firewood from Your Woods
Author(s) William Klase, Kris Tiles. Which trees yield the best firewood? What are the steps in properly harvesting trees? How about splitting an...
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Effects of Flooding on Woody Landscape Plants
Author(s) Laura G. Jull. Plant roots, like people, need oxygen for respiration. That is why a flood can stress a plant and even, if roots are subm...
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Deciduous Trees Disorder: Springtime Weather Injury to Foliage
Author(s) M. F. Heimann, G. L. Worf. Springtime weather injury can cause misleading symptoms on foliage. This fact sheet describes symptoms and st...
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Deciduous Trees Disorder: Miscellaneous Causes of Decline
Author(s) G. L. Worf., J. E. Kuntz. Many problems and disorders can lead to tree decline. This fact sheet explores sun scald, girdling roots, mowe...
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Eastern Tent Caterpillar
Author(s) C. F. Koval, S. W. Binnie. The eastern tent caterpillar is native to North America, and records of its existence go back as far as 1646....
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Spruce Disorder: Spruce Gall Adelgids
Author(s) R. C. Williamson, P. J. Pellitteri. Tiny aphid-like insects frequently cause unusual swellings called galls at or near the ends of spruc...
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Sooty Mold
Author(s) M. F. Heimann, G. L. Worf, P. J. Pellitteri. Sooty mold can be found on virtually any plant in the state. Nearly all shade trees and eve...
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Preserving Trees During Construction
Author(s) Stan Binnie. Home construction can easily damage or even kill prized and valuable landscape trees. Learn the simple steps of safely prot...
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Mountain Ash Disorder: Sunscald-Fungal Canker Complex
Author(s) M. F. Heimann, G. L. Worf. Physical damage to the trunk—caused by sunscald or even lawn mower damage—opens the way for a fungal infectio...
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Mountain Ash Disorder: Fire Blight
Author(s) M.F. Heimann, G.L. Worf. Fire blight sometimes causes dramatic and serious damage, blackening leaves and either the vegetative shoots or...
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Maple and Other Trees Disorder: Cottony Maple Scale
Author(s) C. F. Koval, D. L. Mahr, P. J. Pellitteri. Cottony maple scale is an insect that can infest the twigs of maples and other shade trees wi...
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Linden Borer
Author(s) C. A. Johnson, R. C. Williamson. The linden borer (Saperda vestita Say) is a native insect found throughout northeastern North America t...
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Honeylocust Disorder: Canker Diseases in Wisconsin
Author(s) G. L. Worf, M. F. Heimann. The honeylocust has become an increasingly important street and landscape tree in Wisconsin. Finer textured a...
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Gypsy Moths: Identifying and Managing Gypsy Moth Caterpillars
Author(s) R. Chris Williamson, Andrea Diss. The gypsy moth caterpillar has a distinctively bristly body, with five pairs of blue warts followed by...
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Euonymus Caterpillar
Author(s) K. A. Delahaut. In Wisconsin, the euonymus caterpillar Yponomeuta cagnagella damages the spindletree euonymus, the winged euonymus (also...
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Deciduous Tree Disorder: Cankerworms
Author(s) P. J. Pellitteri, D. L. Mahr, D. J. Hall. Severe, early season defoliation of several hardwood species may be caused by spring or fall c...
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Birch Leafminer
Author(s) P. J. Pellitteri. Birch leafminers are insects that can destroy the leaves of all ornamental birch varieties grown in Wisconsin. Europea...
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Birch Disorder: Bronze Birch Borer
Author(s) R. C. Williamson, P. J. Pellitteri. The bronze birch borer is a serious pest of birch trees in the Midwest. It can severely injure or ki...
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Ash Plant Bug
Author(s) P. J. Pellitteri, C. F. Koval A small insect called the ash plant bug attacks ash trees in June and July, causing thin, discolored, spot...
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Deciduous Tree and Shrub Disorder: Skeletonizing by Rose Chafer
Author(s) R. C. Williamson, C. F. Koval. Skeletonizing of the leaves of roses, raspberries, grapes, fruit trees, and many other cultivated trees a...
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Japanese Beetles
Author(s) R. Chris Williamson. This fact sheet on the Japanese beetle, considered the single most important turf grass pest in the United States ...
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Russian Olive Disorder: Phomopsis Canker
Author(s) G. L. Worf, J. S. Stewart. Russian olive (Elaeagnus angustifolia) is a small tree with beautiful, silver-gray foliage. The tree was once...
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Pine Needle Diseases: Brown Spot and Lophodermium Needlecast
Author(s) M. F. Heimann, G. R. Stanosz, G. L. Worf. These two, needle diseases can make Christmas trees unmarketable and can ruin the beauty of Sc...
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Mountain Ash Disorder: Scab
Author(s) M.F. Heimann, G.R. Stanosz, G.L. Worf. Mountain ash scab is not always a serious problem in Wisconsin, but in wet years it can reach nea...
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