Cold Climate Gardening » Pests, Plagues, and Varmints

"Most discussions of lily beetles are a little helpful and considerably depressing. Many gardeners have abandoned growing lilies because the battle against the beetles is time- consuming and mess...

https://www.coldclimategardening.com/2017/05/17/lilactree-farm-garden-notes-no-2-2017-lily-beetles-weatherland-and-a-very-early-spring/

There comes a time in every gardener’s life when she realizes that a plant she has admired is not all it seems to be. Whatever the initial attraction, another side of the plant is discovered, a...

https://www.coldclimategardening.com/2014/06/25/wild-wicked-but-not-native-rosa-multiflora/

Interview with Jessica Walliser, Author of Attracting Beneficial Bugs to Your Garden Jessica Walliser’s new book,Attracting Beneficial Bugs to Your Garden: A Natural Approach to Pest Controlrec...

https://www.coldclimategardening.com/2014/02/28/what-you-dont-know-about-bugs-could-make-your-garden-better/

Wild parsnip (Pastinaca sativa) lines the ditches of the rural roads I walk and drive on. Its yellow umbels reach peak bloom around the same time as the orange ditch lilies (Hemerocallis fulva). ...

https://www.coldclimategardening.com/2013/07/24/dont-pick-wild-parsnip-wildflower-wednesday/

Because my ‘Josef Lemper’ hellebore was turning yellow, I decided to contact my source for advice. This plant was sent to me to try out in my garden compliments of Skagit Gardens, so I contac...

https://www.coldclimategardening.com/2013/07/11/how-to-rescue-a-plant-with-yellow-leaves/

A lot of my plants have yellow leaves that aren’t supposed to. It’s been raining frequently–often heavy downpours–and when it hasn’t been raining it’s been quite humid. So both the ai...

https://www.coldclimategardening.com/2013/07/04/yellow-leaves-why/

Last fall, I planted 150 species tulips. My last words on that post were “it will still look beautiful next spring.” Boy, was I wrong. The snowdrops that I had divided came up. At least some ...

https://www.coldclimategardening.com/2010/05/11/gardener-4-voles-146/

They’re having a plant clinic over at Garden Rant, and I decided to submit the perplexing, premature leaf drop my ‘Autumn Brilliance’ Juneberry exhibits every year. The leaf drop was addres...

https://www.coldclimategardening.com/2010/04/27/whats-wrong-with-my-juneberry/

Friday the garden looked fine. Saturday we were gone, Sunday it rained. On Monday I asked my husband to dig up some new potatoes for our supper, and he discovered the garden was infected with Phy...

https://www.coldclimategardening.com/2009/08/04/late-blight-in-our-garden/

Almost exactly a year ago, my ‘Endless Summer’ hydrangea was blooming. This year, as you can see above, it doesn’t even have buds. What Went Wrong? Okay, I forgot to feed it. Does it comple...

https://www.coldclimategardening.com/2009/07/14/endless-summer-hydrangea-wheres-the-blooms/