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What are these white specks on this osteospermum (african daisy)?
This african daisy plant has lots of tiny white "crystals" of varying sizes all over the soil and stem, with some on top of the leaves as well (not as much underneath). It looks a lot like salt. Some of the leaves were chewed on by something, the…
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Can cherries be coppiced or cut at 1.20m, and stay alive?
I have an unknown-age cherry that has a significant damage at 1.40m originating from wind and snow breaking a large branch (or several ones). The wound is large, about half of cambium is missing, and the wound is longish (35cm). It also looks really…
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Indoor plant is looking sickly
I have an indoor plant (sorry, no ideas what type), and it's starting to look sickly. I'm hoping for advice. It's in a relatively dark room, but gets moved to the window for sun every so often.
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Should I trim burnt parts in an evergreen hedge?
Not sure what to do with the brown, burnt layer of my fence trees: what will happen if I do nothing? Should I trim all the brown parts?
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Need advice to save a couple mesquite trees in my backyard
A couple years back, my wife created a "walking bridge" between two trees in our backyard using high-tension straps for a child's birthday party. No one ever removed them. (I wanted too, but I was met with resistance because apparently the thing…
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Will red maple tree survive after being eaten by deer?
Deer ate the leaves off a recently planted red maple tree. Is the tree permanently damaged or will the tree continue to grow? What should I do?
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Acer new leaves in mid-September
We had very bad hailstorm in late July which broke a number of branches off the Acer and left a layer of ice on the pot for 3 hours or more. The Acer leaves have slowly shrivelled as a reaction to the ice and damage, but the leaves didn't initially…
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Discolored blackberries, any solutions to fix this?
There is a blackberry bush in my garden, UK, its fruit is ripening at the moment, but many of them are discolored. I read that sunscald could be one cause, it does get direct sun for a lot of the day, and unfortunately I cannot move it as its too…
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How to ensure survival and growth of broken cactus
For a while now the top of my cactus had been dislodged from the rest of it, the dislodged area is brown and dead, but since the accident the area below it has also stopped growing. After 2 years of no growth I have decided to take the dead part off…
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Construction damage to tree
Construction workers have cut a large section of roots from the base of the trunk of the tree in question and I'm trying to find ways to save it.
Some background information: It's a 50 foot tall, perhaps 40 year old tree in the polyalthia family..…
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How can I tell who's responsible for the death of new sod laid in July?
I need some help to figure out what steps I should take next. I paid close to $6,000 to have new sod laid back in July. This was after I paid a couple thousand to have sprinklers installed. The landscaper I used is blaming me for "killing it" even…
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Should I cut off severely bent stems (folded on darker line or spot) on my Peace Lily?
I left my home for 11 days and told someone else to water my Peace Lily but she forgot. When I returned the plant looked dead, lying flat and hanging around the pot. I have watered it and cut some yellow leaves, and in two to three days most of the…
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Bark split on large maple tree
I have recently moved into the house in southern Ontario, Canada, where in the backyard is this large maple tree. It believe it's a silver maple, though not sure. I was pruning some branches the other day and observed this large split in the bark,…
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Handle old maple syrup taps/buckets left in trees?
We have some maple trees that were tapped for syrup ~20 - 30 years ago. The taps and buckets were left in the trees. This has resulted in various trees mostly subsuming the taps and in some cases the lids and/or buckets. Some taps are barely…
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Top of new pepper plants sheared off
The top of our young newly planted pepper plants keep getting sheared off by some critter. We thought it was rabbits so I put up a chicken wire fence around them. however today I noticed the replanted ones have been sheared off also we’ve never had…
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