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Nov 12

Houseplant light levels
Common quince
Tree dead root
Flapjack plant
Tree Identification
Spring and Summer bulbs

Oct. 29

When to plant bulbs
Crown rot
Bindweed
Maple leaf spot
Slime flux
'Professor Sargent' camellia

Oct. 15

Jobs in Horticulture
Luna Moth caterpillar
Mechanical injury to maple
Cherry pruned severely
Mysterious tree damage
Simple composting

Oct. 1

Flood recovery
Candlestick plant
Tree limbs dropping
Orangedog caterpillar
Why trees fall
New York aster

Sept 17

Fescue Planting
Sorghum Identification
Creeping Jenny Disease
Raspberry Leaf Spot
Russian Sage
Save Lightning Tree

Sept 3

Tomato whitefly
Science projects
Volunteer gourd
Hosta virus X


Aug 20

Weeds to watch out for
Leaf footed bugs on tomato
Hornet eating yellowjackets
Devil's claw weed
Virgin's bower
Wall and fence borders

Aug 6

Powdery Mildew
Turtle Eating Tomatoes
River Birch Leaf Drop
Cucumber Not Green
'Goshiki' Osmanthus
Purple in the Garden

July 23

Lawn mowing
Viburnum berries
Mildew on pumpkin
Deer damage to hosta
'Tenor' phlox
Crapemyrtles in the landscapw

July 9

Cicadas
Blackberry chimera
Spiny orbweaver spider
Tomato leaf miner
Turk's Cap lily
Hydrangeas in the Landscape

June 25

Pruning Azaleas
Pine Snake
Glyphosate on Tomatoes
Cats Claw Vine
Ornamental Onion
Ferns in the Garden

June 11

Identify Lawn Grass
Plum Curculio
Oak Leaf Blister
Crape Branches Falling
Easy Summer Annuals
Asiatic Lilies

May 28

Choosing a Landscape Company
Willow leaf beetle
Dogwood powdery mildew
Ladybug larvae
Mosquito control
False indigo

May 14

Manage snakes
Eyed click beetle
Tumbleweed allium
Green peach aphid
Hearts of Gold redbud
Mailbox plantings

Apr 30

Controlling Nuisance Animals
Asparagus Beetle
Soil Sterilizer
Crapemyrtle Lichens
Kaleidoscope abelia
Plant a Row for the Hungry

Apr 16

Ordering Plants by Mail
Fireweed
Spot anthracnose
Cherry galls
Black-eyed Susan
Natives for Earth Day

Apr 2

Ground Bees
Grass wasp
Fairy ring
Crape not blooming
Foamflower
Native spring wildflowers

Mar 19

Timing Last Frost
Woodpecker damage
Pecan tree fallen
Abelia thinning
Carolina jessamine
Flowering trees for the landscape

Mar 5

Horse manure
Cotton cushion scale
Cherry trunk decay
Daphne poisonous
Seersucker sedge
Growing grass in shade

Feb 19

Timing pre-emergent
Silver maple dying
Landscaping for dogs
Owl in the house
Fertilizer use
Ninebark shrub

Feb 5

Soil Prep for Spring
Oak Canker
Starter Fertilizer
Bradford pear self-destruction
Native Azaleas
Red twig dogwood

Jan 22

Poinsettia care
Mistletoe
Christmas cactus seedpod
Pink snow mold
Weeping winged elm
Surface roots of trees

Jan 8

Pruning crapemyrtle
Quince identification
Calla growing
Springtails
Flowers from Fall to Spring
'Winter King' Hawthorn

Dec 18

Christmas cactus care
Rat damage on Meyer lemon
Fox squirrel
Maple friction damage
Hollies in the landscape
Yaupon holly

Dec 4

Great gifts for the holidays

Nov 27

Dipladenia
Persimmon ID
Oak Cherry gall
Dwarf plants
Bald cypress

Nov 13

Pink Hibiscus mealybug
Wheel bug
Imperial moth caterpillar
Akebia fruit
Evergreen foundation plants for shade
American beautyberry


Oct 30

Holes in pansy leaves
Camellia scale
Spider webs on shrubs
Ground cherry
Interesting winter bark
'Yuletide' camellia

Oct 16

Apples
Stinky houseplant
Carrion flower
Camellia seed
Angel trumpet
Using mulch

Oct 2

Basic tools
Sweet olive
Luna moth caterpillar
Snailseed vine
Cool season annuals
'Shady Lady' anise

Sept 18

Poplar scale
Chinese golden banana
Chinese Tallow tree
'Fireworks' goldenrod
Maple information

Sept 4

Planting fescue
Pruning weeping cherry
Plum gummosis
Centipede overwatering
Spider lily
Rock gardens

Aug 21

Native Plants
Soil pH on tomatoes
Tree Barklice
Family Jewels Plant
Rain Gardens
Toad lily

Aug 7

Farmers Markets
Pine Scale
Squash bugs
Evergreen wisteria
Natives for Tropical Look
Cardinal Flower

July 24

Slime flux
Drowned fescue
My first curse word
Mullein
Using coneflowers
Blazing star


July 10

Mulch volcanoes
Calcium chloride burn
Planting young dogwood
Ragweed
Southern bush honeysuckle
Shade trees

June 26

Tomato Blossom End Rot
Sweetgum caterpillar
Peach brown rot
Immature acorns
'Black and Blue' salvia
Give up the grass

June 12

English ivy dermatitis
Frozen purple fountain grass
Roundup damage to rose
Boxwood damage
Hostas
Indian blanket

May 29

Spring Dead Spot
Crocus Seed
Oxalis Rust
Over-watered Lawn
Indian Pink
Wind Damaged Trees

May 15

Watering Rules
Redbud falls over
Yellowneck caterpillars
Oak apple gall
Fragrant Plants
‘Sweet Kate’ spiderwort

May 1

Level a Lawn
Rusty Leaves
Roundup damage to lawn
Mockorange sawfly
Landscaping for a Home Sale
Agapanthus 'Midnight Blue'

Apr. 17

Lawn Care Calendars
Aphids on Pansy
Elaeagnus fruit
Spathyphyllum scale
Perennials for Dry Shade
Green and Gold (Chrysogonum)

Special Cold Weather Edition

Protecting Plants from Cold

Apr 3

Yellow leaves on holly
Weeds in centipede
Lawnmower blight
Foster holly
Ashe's magnolia
Flowers for cutting

Mar 20

Mason Bee House
Praying Mantis Case
Cedar Quince Rust
Star of Bethlehem
Variegated Plants for Shade
Flame Azalea

Mar 6

Pruning Bush Roses
Hybrid bluebells
Hydrangeas in winter
Fescue in bermuda
Garden bugs
Piedmont native azalea


Feb 21

Pronounce garden words
Camellia leaf spot
Japanese ligustrum
Hairy bittercress
'Purple Pixie' loropetalum
Butterfly gardens




Feb 07

Putting dirt on tree roots
Grafted limb
Pine tree bubbles
Labels on plant pots
Ornamental herbs
Bright n Tight Cherry laurel

Jan 24

Deer Plants
Light for Houseplants
Remove Fescue from zoysia
Rose Hips
Seersucker Sedge
Ice in the garden

Jan 10

Woodchip myths
Hyacinth bean
Sago Palm
False truffles
Arborvitae fern
Latin plant names


Dec. 27

Poinsettia care after holidays
Hypoxylon canker
Deer damage
Azalea Yellowing
Proper pruning
Armand's clematis

Dec. 13

The Vegetable Orchestra
Yellow Meyer lemon leaves
Groundsel bush
Broccoli brownbead
'White by the Gate' camellia
Capturing Rainwater

Nov. 29

Living Christmas Trees
Beggartick weed
Amur honeysuckle
Bees in house
Plants for screening
Viburnums

Nov. 15

Shrub Pruning calendar
Poison sumac
Double flowered pomegranate
Rose sawfly
The garden fence
'Emerald Green' arborvitae


Nov. 1

Rooting Confederate Rose
Hidden Ginger
Tree Trunk Damage
Marbled spider
Raised beds
'October Glory' maple

Oct 18

Planting Pansies in Drought
Drought Information - County by County
Tree cabling
Pool Demolition
White Pine Borers
'Autumn Joy' sedum

Oct 5

Link to the Online Seminar on Oct. 6

Oct 4

Rain Barrels
Purslane
Albino chipmunk
Japanese maple sprouts
Forsythia sage
Poisonous plants

Oct 2

Special reminder and link for Oct. 6 online seminar

Sept 20

Weed ID with Pictures
Coffeeweed
Mouse pumpkin damage
Squirrel wolves
Blackberry lily
Chrysanthemums
'Tiger Eyes' sumac

Sept 13

Special announcement of October 6 Webinar

Sept 7

Fescue diseases
Orb weaving spider ID
Walkingstick Insect ID
Earwig ID
Leaves Falling from tulip poplar
Arkansas bluestar
Landscaping streambanks



Aug 23

Odd vegetables
Landscaping slopes
Variegated creeping gardenia
Seeds sprouting in tomato
Oakleaf hydrangea root rot
Holly scale

Aug 9

Weird Vegetables
Pine Canker
Polygonum weed
Celosia
Fall flowers
'Forest Pansy' redbud

July 26

Gardening Heritage
Maple bark damage
Squirrel damage to roots
Odd Squash
Scarlet hibiscus
Wildflowers

July 12

Japanese beetle control
Evening primrose
Sun-scorched lawn
Mexican Bean Beetle
Summersweet
Ferns in the Garden

June 28

Cicadas
Cardinal babies
Bottle brush bush
Blue Gardens
Crippsii False Cypress

June 14

Drought information
Rabbit eating ornamental potato
Pine pitch canker
Crinum identification
Drought and Irrigation
Phlox "Volcano" series

May 31


Extension phone number
Grow herbs indoors
Mexican bamboo
Propagate hosta
Plants for Bees
Orange milkweed

May 17

Sodding a Lawn
European hornet
Chuck Will's Widow
Multiflora rose
Plants between pavers
Bear's Breeches

May 3

Finding a Farmer's Market
Espalier elaeagnus
Obscure scale
Vernal Iris
Easter Freeze Followup
Coral Honeysuckle

April 19

What to Do After the Freeze
Garden Tools
False Rosemary
Resurrection Fern
Bull Thistle
Leyland Cypress Dying

April 5

Special Cold Weather Alert

April 5

Organic Gardening
Large Patch on Zoysia
Chinese photinia
Bagworm Control
Invasive Plants
Two-winged Silverbell

March 22

Georgia Gardener TV Show
Mistletoe
Chickweed
Holly Sex Determination
Vines in the Garden
Celandine poppy

March 8

Vole control
Pine brooming
Strangling roots
Tree shelter damage
Autumn fern
Starting plants from seed

February 22

Fertilizing fescue
English ivy Dying
Prune mahonia
Corkscrew rush
Plants for soupy soil
Japanese aralia

February 8

Annual bluegrass
Sooty mold on gardenia
Pruning crape critique
Smilax vine
Plants for winter interest
'Ivory Prince' hellebore

January 25

Prune crapemyrtle
Prune Knockout rose
Frost flowers
Firewood fungus
Deer control with baby formula
'Winter Red' winterberry holly
Year-round blooms

January 11

Georgia Hardiness Zones
Dyed Poinsettias
Autumnalis cherry
Gardenia seed pod
Wintergreen
Container gardening

Dec 28

Organic Gardening
Adventitious Roots
Fern spores
Gouty oak gall
'Blue Arrow' juniper
Groundcovers 101

Dec 14

Christmas cactus care
Needle Palm
Moss lawns
Perennial Rye in bermuda
Worm snake
Persimmons
Privet scale

Dec 7

Special Cold Weather Edition
Effects of cold on plants
How to protect plants


Nov 30

Choosing a Christmas Tree
Spotty Tomatoes
Black Rat Snake
Azalea Yellow Leaves
Ice Plant
Foundation Plants for Shade


Nov 16

Installing Sod in Winter
Artillery Fungus
Honey Mushrooms
Honey Locust
Odd Coral Bark Maple Leaf
Golden Variegated Sweetflag
Conifers for Georgia Gardens

Nov 02

Overwintering Geranium
Grubs in Pool
Shady Backyard
Devils Trumpet
Sweetbay Magnolia
Harry Lauder�s Walking Stick
Using Stone in the Landscape

Oct 19

Choosing Good Plants
Naranjilla
Pecan Phyloxera
Cottony Maple Scale
Tomato Tree
Bulbs in the Garden
Autumn Sage


Oct 5

Planting Pansies
Cherry Oozing
Puffball mushroom
Lizard Eggs
Rose Hips
Muhly grass
Deer resistant Plants

Sept 21

Saddleback caterpillar
Spicebush caterpillar
Swallowtail caterpillar
Orange stripe oak worm
Rustic sphinx moth
Water features
Mt Airy fothergilla

Sept 7

Evaluate new turfgrass
Porcelain vine
Cypress vine
Pine sawfly
Cicada shell
Easy Annuals
'Prarifire' crabapple

Aug 24

Ermine moth
Crapemyrtle sprouts
Squirrels chewing deck
Leafcutter bee
Hercules beetle grub
Easy Grow Perennials
Pickerel weed

Aug 10

Mysterious clay particles solved!
Disposing of pesticides
Hercules beetle
Jerusalem cherry
Roundup on crapemyrtle
Cherry bark cracks
Easy plants for Georgia
'Sum and Substance' hosta

July 27

Mysterious clay particles
Tomato hornworm
Milkweed bugs
Red Hot poker
Blossom end rot
Planting Berry garden
Obedient plant

July 13

People Dumber Than Us
Opium Poppy
Polyphemous moth
Water lettuce
Lightning
Soil Preparation
Bottlebrush Buckeye

June 29

Watering Correctly
Dying Tree
Dog Vomit fungus
pipsissewa
Digger Bees
Using Mulch
Pagoda Dogwood

June 15

Tomato Disease Guide
Box Elder Bugs
Oak Leaf miner
Creeping Cucumber
Chaste Tree
Mexican Feather Grass
Xeriscaping

June 1

Shrub propagation setup
Foxglove spider mites
Cinnamon fern ID
Honeybee swarm wax
Pear fire blight
'Blue Danube' Stokes aster
Arbors in the garden

May 18

Chimney swifts
DeKay's snake
Raspberry virus
Dead sycamore
Witchhazel galls
'Early Sunrise' coreopsis
Dry streambed

May 4

Basic Lawn Maintenance
Walking Iris
Bradford thorns
daylily rust
Azalea cold damage
�Screaming Yellow� baptisia
Design with Hydrangeas


Apr 20

Best of the Best Annuals and Perennials
Cherrylaurel cercospora
Happy African violet
Scleroderma fungus
Doublefile viburnum
English bluebells
Native Flowers for Sun

Apr 6

Growing tomatoes
Growing coleus
Balloonflower
Fusiform rust
Chandlier plant
Blooming dracena
Equisetum ID

Mar 23

Ground Bees
Shade combinations
Red Buckeye
Burned Leylands
Privet Leafspot
Frozen oleander
Azalea lacebug

Mar 9

Termites in Mulch
Pruning Bradford Pear
Laurel Shothole
Sapsucker Control
Sweetgum "Wings"
Removing Magnolia Tree
Combining Daffodils with Pansies
Redtwig Dogwood

Feb 23

Annual bluegrass control
Crapemyrtle pruning
Pansy aphids
Italian arum ID
Winter rye
Variegated boxwood

Feb 9

Soil Prep for Spring
Daphne ID
Bad Pruning
'Winter King' hawthorn
Goosegrass
Cattails
Winter daphne

January 26

Sources of Professional Equipment
Dead White Pine
Chickweed
Hollyhock Seedlings
Leatherleaf Mahonia
Chinese Fringeflower

January 12

Protect Plants for Winter
Flowering Orange Tree
Black Knot
Greenhouse Watering
Chinese Privet
Pitcher Plants

December 29

Hemlock adelgid
Turkey control
Bougainvilla goldenrain tree
Conk on tree
Running cedar
Broomsedge
Soft yucca


December 15

Build a Light Stand
Raccoon Damage
Jade Plant Blooms
American Beautyberry
Silver Plume Grass
'Bloodgood' Japanese Maple


December 1

Choosing a Christmas Tree
Club Moss ID
Wireworm in potatoes
Blotchy bermudagrass
Box Elder maple
Gold Mop false cypress

November 17

Test Light Levels Indoors
Cleome not Marijuana
Che Tree
Burning Bush ID
Philodendron Bloom
Dealing With Leaves
Southern Shield Fern

November 3

Southeaster Flower Show Entries
Cudweed
Collard Lice control
ID peanut butter plant
Moss in Lawns
Tulips

October 20

Getting Free Horse Manure
American Euonymus
Fertilizing pecan trees
Deer eating birdseed
Identifying bottlebrush buckeye
Fall Color
Japanese Anemone

October 6

Pansy Planting
Wild Poinsettia
Tussock Moth
Confederate Rose
Centipede vs St Augustine
Maiden Grass
New York Aster

Sept 22

Planting Fescue
Hickory Horned Devil
Kyllinga
Saddleback Caterpillar
Pampas grass
'Gretchen' garden mum

Sept 8

Losing Lawns

Fairy Fan fungus
Puss caterpillar
Yellow Cucumber
Sweetgum anthracnose
Sedum 'Autumn Joy'

August 25

Cicada killer wasp
Gooseneck loosestrife
Sicklepod
Lichens
Joe-Pye weed

August 11

Pesticide Mis-use
Maypop
Rat-tailed Maggot
Cucumber Mosaic Virus
Clerodendron
Bean Anthracnose
Septoria Leaf Spot
Silver Mound Artemesia


July 28

Buttonweed
Deer damage
Butterfly pea
Hymenocallis
Powdery Mildew
Cardinal flower

July 14

Choosing an Arborist
Nutgrass control
Tiger swallowtail
Dodder
Dying Junipers
Early Blight on Tomato
Mushrooms
Turk's Cap Lily

June 30

Japanese beetles
Fungus gnat larvae

Rat snake
Balloon flower
Japanese bloodgrass
Daylily seedpods
Variegated phlox

June 16

Bradford pear
Corn pollination
Parasol tree
Mallow
Goldenrain tree
Sunrise coneflower

June 2

Aphids
Weeping Love Grass
Red Hot Poker
Rohdea
Slime Mold
Asparagus Fern


May 19

Musk thistle
Daisy beetle
Air potato
Rose mosaic virus
Maple eyespot gall
Poison ivy
Sweetshrub


May 5

Holland trip
Creeping fig
Sweetshrub
Garlic
G. G. Gerbing azalea
Wild blackberry
Mouse-ear coreopsis


Apr.21

Canna leaf roller
Windmill palm
Quackgrass
Hollyhock
Red columbine
Oxeye daisy

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Rhododendron wilt
Bad birch pruning
Mahonia
Virginia bluebell
Flowering dogwood
Termites

Mar. 24

Pine Pollen
Amaryllis in the garden
Hawkmoth pupa
Oak crown gall
Spring starflower
DOT wildflowers

Mar. 10

Pruning Fruit Trees
Schefflera aphid
Burweed Control
Pumping from a Creek
'Georgia Blue' Veronica
Henbit

Feb. 24

Wildlife Control
Japanese maple

Gnawed pine
Wax scale
Lenten rose
Red maple

Feb. 10

Starting Seed
Earthworm Castings
False Aloe
Florida Anise
Mis-use of Leyland Cypress
Basketgrass (Microstegium)

Ice Storm - Special Edition

Tree Damage
Help Trees Recover
Straightening Trees
Dealing with a Stump
Choosing an Arborist
Determining Tree Value
Tree Damage Insurance


Jan. 27

Beefsteak begonia
Henbit
Nitrate nitrogen
Stinkhorn
Firefly
Fig Pruning
'Amethyst Mist' Coral Bells
Eastern redcedar

Jan. 13

Schefflera
Pruning Leyland cypress
Wounded cherry
Allegheny Spurge
Japanese honeysuckle

Dec. 30

Cold weather supplies
Pine ambrosia beetle
Cranefly orchid
Cat-damaged maple
Nandina
Yucca 'Color Guard'

Dec. 16

Holiday Gifts
Garden design software
Squirrel damage
Raised bed plan
Mistletoe
'Yuletide' camellia

Dec. 2

Poisonous Holiday Plants
Love-in-a-mist
Pansy cutworm
Climbing milkweed
Joseph's Coat
Fall azaleas
Ginkgo tree

Nov. 18

Invasive plants
Planaria worm
Trifoliate orange
Chickweed
Arkansas Bluestar
Groundsel Tree

Nov. 4

Buying strong plants
Mushroom I.D.
Pinecone ginger
Papaya
Angel Trumpet
Sweetgum

Oct. 21

Chewed pansy leaves
Buttonbush
Cereus
Creeping Charlie
Slime Flux
Swamp sunflower
Goldenrod

Oct. 7

Pansies
Sweet Autumn clematis
Elephant Ear Bloom
Confederate Rose
Purple Muhly Grass
Trumpet Vine

Sept. 23

Straighten Crapemyrtle
Limb Repair
Flying Squirrel
Osage Orange
Jack Bean
Silvervein Creeper

Tuberous Vervain

Sept. 9

Kudzu
Bur Marigold
American Beautyberry
Datura
Maple Leaf Spot
Spurge

Aug. 26

Naked Ladies
Evening Primrose
Rattlesnake Master
Velvet Ant
Clerodendron

Aug. 12

Mosquito trap responses
Predatory bugs
Hornet
Tri-color amaranth
Ginger lily
Ironweed

July 29

Propane mosquito traps
Tomato cracking
Paulownia
Chocolate snakeroot
Pokeweed
Bagworm

July 15

Green Coneflower
Fasciated Lily
Black Rot on Grape
Loblolly Bay

Sourwood

July 1

Mulberry Weed
Premature Yellowing
Cicada Killer
Bee Balm
Common Mullein
Cleome

June 17

Brown Patch
Ticks
Purple Coneflower
Mimosa Tree

June 03

Gardening in Drought
Queen Anne's Lace
Larkspur
Powdery Mildew

May 20

Deciphering Plant Names
Butterweed
False Indigo (Baptisia)
Fire Ants

May 8

Garden Secrets for Beginners
Evening Primrose
Fringe Tree
Asian Ambrosia Beetle

April 22

Misunderstood Garden Words
Pine Pollen
Woodland Phlox
Tree Topping
Gardenia Whitefly

April 8

Choosing a Landscape Service
American Holly

Needle Palm
Canna Leaf Roller

April 2

Wisteria
Carpenter Bee
Tent Caterpillar
Lawn Calendars

March 25

Pruning Bradford Pear
Ground Bee
Amelanchier
Coral Bark Maple
Saucer Magnolia

March 11

Bulbs
Aphids
Loblolly Pine
Poa annua

Autumn Fern

February 26

Weed Control
Squirrels
Carolina jessamine
Chlorotic
American Beech
DIY Network

February 12

Southeastern Flower Show
Carefree Roses
Lady Beetle
Red Twig Dogwood
Chinese Privet