IDAHO FALLS — Plant diseases rarely happen by accident. When problems show up in the garden, it is usually because the right conditions come together at the right time. Plant diseases can occur in any ...

Math was not my favorite subject in school, so I have always been a little wary of mathematical concepts. But growing roses introduced me to the disease triangle, which is one bit of geometry triangle ...

When battling plant diseases in the garden or landscape, knowing what conditions encourage disease can be helpful in preventing or reducing damage during the growing season. Obviously plant pathogens, ...

Every season brings a new slate of plant pathogens to our Florida lawns and gardens. Luckily, there are many tactics we can employ to help reduce their impact. Florida generally has a warm, humid ...

It’s that time of the year that we begin to see the symptoms of disease on various garden plants. One of the most common problems that I am seeing at this time is black spot on roses. The black spot ...

All of us have had problems with disease in our garden or lawn at some time. It may be black spot on roses, blight on tomatoes, powdery mildew on a lilac hedge, fungus on the lawn, or tip blight on ...

Chewed-up rose blooms and diseased rose leaves are disheartening, but the remedy is easy. We deadhead the blooms and cut out the leaves and know that fresh new blooms and leaves will soon come.

As our recent research shows, temperature directly affects the immune systems of vertebrates – regardless of how they ...