Kansas City is used to rainy spring days, but with so much rain in the forecast, you may have noticed something strange popping up on some of your trees. It’s an orange or red, alien-looking form, ...

Q: I have two apple trees in my yard that have recently developed orange specks on the leaves and started dropping young apples. Chase Weber, Braselton A: I’m confident you are seeing the signs of ...

Image of the Day: Cedar-apple Rust Wind shuttles spores released from a gall on an apple tree to a cedar tree in order to complete the life cycle of the devastating cedar-apple rust.

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 ...