You're not alone if you've struggled growing red-tip photinia in your garden. One season this plant looks fine, with its signature red-tipped leaves, and the following year, after pruning, it looks ...

Q: I took your recommendation and planted a Dapple Dandy pluot and Santa Rosa plum in the same hole about 18 inches apart. New growth has already started to appear. I’d now like to cut and lower the ...

When the purple spots and yellow leaves show up on photinia and hawthorns, many people are told there is no effective treatment for the damaging entomosporium leaf spot disease. But it's not true.

Question: I planted a row of cleyera in a bed that receives sunlight for about 3 hours during the middle of the day. My problem is that a number of the plants are dying. It begins with the leaves on ...

Q: A couple of doors down from ours, in the front yard, our neighbor has a large bush, at least 10 feet across and 8 foot tall oval-shaped globe, growing in their yard. We’ve never really put much ...

I get lots of questions about photinia problems. Several gardeners have reported using Bordeaux mix and other copper products, Banner, potassium bicarbonate, and other products with no good results. I ...

Q: We’ve never had any problem or disease with our established Photinia hedge until last year. The leaves developed brown spots and then most of them dropped off. Can we save our hedge? A: Photinia x ...