A group of young cedar trees infected with blight - N. Mitchell/Shutterstock There's nothing quite as majestic and imposing as a fully-grown cedar tree with its broad horizontal branches and fragrant ...

During the summer, many of us notice yellow-orange spots on the leaves of their ornamental pear trees. These spots begin in the late spring on the upper surface of leaves, approximately 1/8- to ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Kansas City is used to rainy spring days, ...

Climate change and drought are shifting how and where infectious plant disease moves in a forest. Even pathogens have their limits. When it gets too hot or too dry, some pathogens — like many living ...

One of the oddities that nature throws our way in late June is the rusty-orange dust that sometimes mysteriously shows up on cars and walkways under trees. The powdery substance is usually from spores ...

Miranda Earnest, the new horticulture aide for Buffalo County Extension, is a 2015 Aurora High School graduate. She received her bachelor’s degree from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln on May 4, ...

Last year my Bradford pear’s leaves were covered with rust fungus. What can I do this year to prevent that from happening again? CS You are correct. It seems like rust disease was everywhere last ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Kansas City is used to rainy spring days, ...

A study provides some of the first evidence that climate change and drought are shifting the range of infectious disease in forests suffering from white pine blister rust disease. Even pathogens have ...