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A little bug, but a big problem

  • Karen Gideon

Anthracnose may be the culprit

  • James Campbell

Are gardeners using less pesticide?

  • D.F. Braun

Are your trees decaying?

  • Karen Gideon

Backyard Sleuthing

  • Nanette Londeree

Bagrada bug is on its way

  • Wendy Irving

Bats have many positive benefits, unless they're living under your roof

  • Nanette Londeree

Battling boxwood blight: protecting your garden greenery

  • James Campbell and Steven Swain, Marin County Environmental Horticulture Advisor

Be alert for fungal and bacterial disease

  • Karen Gideon

Beware of pine bark needles

  • Karen Gideon

Bird bye bird

  • Karen Gideon

Birds in the garden — friends or foes?

  • Karen Gideon

Bots Breaking Bad - Bay Laurel Trees Are Under Attack

  • Barbara Robertson

Boxwood blight arrives, but not in Marin — yet

  • Doris Gates

Boxwood leafminers can mean big trouble for beloved boxwoods

  • Diane Lynch

Broom is not our garden friend

  • Diane Lynch

Bug-eating bats help control garden pests

  • Nanette Londeree

Camellia, azalea and rhododendron flower blights

  • Martha Proctor

Check your garden for pests

  • Jane Scurich

Choosing options to invasive plants

  • Marie Narlock

Citrus leafminer a sour reality for Marin

  • Wendy Irving

Citrus offers a slice of history

  • Marie Narlock

Clean up now for a pest-free spring garden

  • Jane Scurich

Control disease spread in your garden

  • Marty Nelson

Could the creature digging in your garden be a vole?

  • Marty Nelson

Creepy, crawly spiders help keep garden pests in check

  • Nanette Londeree

Cucumber beetles

  • Martha Proctor

Deal with garden’s pests and diseases now

  • Dot Zanotti Ingels

Do you have a fig tree? Be on the lookout for the black fig fly.

  • Steven Swain, Environmental Horticulture Advisor, and Marin Master Gardener James Campbell

Don’t be alarmed about mushrooms in your garden

  • Marty Nelson

Don’t let weeds overtake your garden

  • Nanette Londeree

Dormant season spraying

  • Martha Proctor

Effective codling moth control requires timing and persistence

  • Marty Nelson

Escaped Exotics, Invasive Plants

  • Katie Martin

Even the most observant gardener might miss the signs of root rot

  • Karen Gideon

Ewww… rats are everywhere!

  • Diane Lynch

Examine wind patterns to avoid damage to landscape.

  • Dot Zanotti Ingels

Fight against sudden death syndrome needs citizen scientists

  • Barbara Robertson

Fighting clouds of whiteflies

  • Barbara Robertson

Fine tuning landscape’s ecology to keep out pests

  • Dave Phelps

Fire pear blight, what to look for, and how to control it

  • Martha Proctor

Flowers but no Fruit? Suspect pollination problems.

  • Marty Nelson

Foamy bark canker disease poses threat for Marin’s live oaks

  • Martha Proctor

Frost

  • Martha Proctor

Fungal diseases of plants

  • Martha Proctor

Fungi: it’s important to know which are nuisances and which require action

  • Nanette Londeree

Galls, those mysterious garden shapeshifters

  • Marty Nelson

Get garden pests while they’re dormant

  • Dave Phelps

Grub control with flower power, roguing, caging and aerating

  • Anne-Marie Walker

Hold your nose and pull this weed

  • Barbara Robertson

Horticultural oils battle bugs nontoxically

  • Martha Proctor

How to combat powdery mildew on plants

  • Martha Proctor

How to correctly manage garden pests

  • Dot Zanotti Ingels

How to detect, avoid termite trouble in your home

  • Martha Proctor

How to keep snails, slugs away

  • Nanette Londeree

How to save your fire blight-infected tree

  • Faye Mark

Integrated pest management makes good sense

  • Nanette Londeree

Invasive Japanese knotweed is not our friend

  • Martha Proctor

Invasive Japanese knotweed is not our friend

  • Martha Proctor

Invasive plants: yes, they matter

  • Marie Narlock

It’s not too hard to mosquito-proof your garden

  • Karen Gideon

Japanese knotweed, the Godzilla of weeds

  • Nanette Londeree

Keep diseases out of the garden

  • Nanette Londeree

Keeping blight off of fruit trees

  • Nanette Londeree

Keeping California oaks healthier

  • Anne-Marie Walker

Managing scale on your fruit trees requires a multifaceted approach

  • Nanette Londeree

Marin’s a perfect incubator for peach leaf curl

  • Dave Phelps

Mealybugs in the landscape

  • Jane Scurich

Mediterranean oak borer

  • Steven Swain and Barbara Robertson

Mysterious life of lichen

  • Barbara Robertson

New pest threatens oak trees

  • Barbara Robertson

Non-Native Invasive Plants

  • Martha Proctor

Not everyone is wild about turkeys

  • James Campbell

Oak leaves turning brown? Could be the two-horned gall wasp...

  • Steven Swain, Horticulture Advisor, UCCE Marin

Oh rats

  • Martha Proctor

Oh rats! Learn how to keep them from becoming a problem.

  • Nanette Londeree

Oh, deer! How to keep them from destroying your garden

  • Doris Gates

Olive bark beetle, a threat to state’s trees?

  • Martha Proctor

Out, out damn'd weeds

  • Martha Proctor

Out, out darn spots: How to prevent, treat powdery mildew

  • Barbara Robertson

Owls, a pretty face with a killer instinct

  • Marie Narlock

Pesky plants

  • James Campbell

Pests? Think before you spray

  • Nanette Londeree

Pine bark beetle

  • Martha Proctor

Plants are cleaning machines

  • Diane Lynch

Poisonous plants

  • Sara O’Keefe

Powdery mildew

  • Martha Proctor

Protect your plants from sucking pests

  • Nanette Londeree

Rats can do a lot of damage around home, garden

  • Nanette Londeree

Reseeding, a blessing and a curse

  • Dot Zanotti Ingels

Rose slugs, a thorn in a rose’s side

  • Jane Scurich

Sharpshooters a growing menace to vineyards, home gardens

  • Wendy Irving

Shot hole disease

  • Martha Proctor

Sick soil syndrome can wreak havoc in your garden

  • Barbara Robertson

Snails and slugs

  • Juliana Jensen

Some insects can spread diseases among plants

  • Dot Zanotti Ingels

Sports, fascination, basket stinkhorn and other botanical oddities

  • Nanette Londeree

Spray now or pay later

  • Nanette Londeree

Springtime brings new growth - and pesky pests

  • Nanette Londeree

Strategies to manage the olive fruit fly

  • Martha Proctor

The California oakworm: not really a worm, just a very hungry caterpillar

  • Anne-Marie Walker

The case of the curious pest

  • D.F. Braun

The oriental fruit fly: what Marin County gardeners need to know

  • James Campbell

The Rusts

  • Nanette Londeree

The sly whitefly is a tricky tomato pest

  • James Campbell

The sticky problem of honeydew and how to tackle it

  • Martha Proctor

The Top 10 Ways to Kill Plants You Love

  • Nanette Londeree

The worm in the apple

  • Nanette Londeree

Tiny mites can be a mighty big problem

  • Nanette Londeree

Two pests and a tree

  • Anne-Marie Walker

Underground invaders to your garden

  • Dot Zanotti Ingels

Uninvited guests: managing gophers

  • Marie Narlock

Want a privacy screen? Avoid bamboo - your garden and neighbors will thank you.

  • Julie McMillan

Warm weather makes our gardens more vulnerable to fungus

  • Martha Proctor

Weed woes in your garden

  • Martha Proctor

What are spiders doing in my garden?

  • Marty Nelson

What is that yellow trap in my tree?

  • James Campbell

What makes a plant invasive?

  • James Campbell

What to do about Verticillium Wilt

  • Wendy Irving

What to Do When Unwanted Deer Appear

  • Jane Scurich

What's bugging your roses?

  • Nanette Londeree

What’s been digging in my flower bed?

  • Karen Gideon

What’s bugging your tomatoes?

  • Nanette Londeree

What’s eating your rose leaves?

  • Nanette Londeree

What’s nibbling my vegetables at night?

  • Karen Gideon

What’s the difference between ants and termites?

  • Nanette Londeree

What’s wrong with my plant?

  • Nanette Londeree

What’s wrong with my plant?

  • Nanette Londeree

When pesky birds need to take wing

  • Nanette Londeree

Who’s stealing my fruit or veggies – rats or raccoons – and what can I do about them?

  • Julie McMillan

Why many aren’t nuts about squirrels

  • Marie Narlock

Woodpeckers, welcome neighbor or possible nuisance?

  • Barbara Robertson

Yellow foliage only where you want it!

  • Nanette Londeree

Yikes, thrips

  • Jane Scurich