Steve Nix is a member of the Society of American Foresters and a former forest resources analyst for the state of Alabama. Sooty mold appropriately and exactly describes the disease, as it looks just ...

Q: Black sooty mold is on my crape myrtle. What causes it, and how do I treat it? Also, are wasps around my house because some of the shrubs have scale? How do I treat that? A: Aphids are crape pests ...

Question: Last summer my azaleas, gardenias and even my car were completely covered in a black growth. Later I noticed that the crape myrtle that is in the same bed and near the car was covered in the ...

Garden columnist Dan Gill answers readers' questions each week. To send a question, email Gill at [email protected]. About a year ago, we redid our flowerbeds and added three crape myrtle trees.

QUESTION: My gardenia has, what I think is, a very bad case of sooty mold. Last summer it had whiteflies, and I tried to get rid of them using a garden hose, but was not very successful. I tried ...

This is the time of year we notice all the fungus among us. Everything from white powdery mildew to black sooty leaf mold is popping up all over our landscapes. Recent heat and humidity are partly to ...

Garden staff are finding more scale insects and aphids than in past years. A major infestation of lecanium scale was recently found on a large planting of bald cypress at the Garden. The population of ...