If your shrubs have distorted, yellowing, or curling leaves or their growth seems stunted, take a close look. Woolly aphids may be to blame. These insects suck sap from healthy plants and leave a ...

Are your garden plants stunted, shriveled, yellowing, or curling at the leaves, despite your best efforts to keep them alive? Check the undersides of the leaves, and you might find the culprit: large ...

They’re a menace. A total nightmare in ornamental and edible gardens alike. The bane of many gardener’s lives, these tiny pests wreak havoc, and can weaken or destroy huge numbers of crops. But don’t ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A strong spray of water from your hose can safely knock aphids off pepper plants, but it may take a few rounds to fully clear them ...

When you think of essential oils, self-care probably comes to mind first — use a few drops in a relaxing bath or as part of a soothing massage. Or you may be a skeptic who doubts any powers essential ...

A popular gardener is showing off a simple, natural way to keep a certain class of pests away from plants. Instagrammer Jil Hinds (@thepinkjardin), who has garnered more than 82,000 followers, shows ...

Garden columnist Dan Gill answers readers' questions each week. To send a question, email Gill at dgill@agcenter.lsu.edu. I have some Japanese yew shrubs that are a couple of years old that I planted ...

Does it ever seem that you look at one of the plants in your garden and it’s totally fine, and then the next time you look at it, it’s covered with aphids? That could be because aphid populations can ...