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Apple Tree Diseases: How to Identify and Treat the Big Ones
A homeowner's guide to apple tree diseases. Identify scab, fire blight, cedar-apple rust, and black rot. Treatment costs, pruning protocols, and resistant cultivars.
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Arborvitae Problems: Why Your Privacy Hedge Is Browning and How to Save It
Identify and fix the six problems that hit backyard arborvitae hedges: bagworms, spider mites, tip blight, root rot, winter burn, and deer damage.
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Cherry Tree Diseases: What's Wrong With Your Cherry and How to Fix It
Identify and treat the six diseases that hit backyard cherry trees: brown rot, cherry leaf spot, black knot, Cytospora canker, bacterial canker, and X-disease.
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Citrus Tree Diseases: From Greening to Root Rot, What's Hurting Your Tree
A homeowner's guide to citrus tree diseases: HLB/greening, citrus canker, brown rot, sooty mold, melanose, and foot/root rot. Symptoms, treatment, regulatory notes.
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Crepe Myrtle Diseases and Pests: Bark Scale, Powdery Mildew, and the Rest
Identify and treat the five problems hitting backyard crepe myrtles: crepe myrtle bark scale, powdery mildew, Cercospora leaf spot, sooty mold, and root rot.
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Dogwood Tree Diseases: Anthracnose and the Other Big Threats
Identify and treat the five problems that hit flowering dogwoods: dogwood anthracnose, powdery mildew, septoria leaf spot, crown canker, and dogwood borer.
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