This cool weather has caused some unusual plant problems we normally do not see in the hot desert. One reader contacted me to let me know that his tomatoes were not quite the size of a tennis ball, ...

Question: Help me decide if I can keep my 12-year-old Chinaberry tree. I fear it has sooty canker disease because it has some branches dying. But it does not have peeling bark. It is a joy in the ...

WHITTIER – Painter Avenue has long been lined with ficus trees, and residents have long fought to keep them. But a disease called sooty canker will force 13 of them to come down over the next couple ...