Dear Neil: What is wrong with my flowering plum tree? It was planted in ... plums is five or six years before borers or bacterial canker kills the trees. They are so pretty, but so short-lived.

DEAR NEIL: This happened to my Mexican plum last ... Hypoxylon canker that tells us that the spores are rather omnipresent in wooded areas and that it’s almost impossible to keep trees from ...

Fast-moving bacterial infection Citrus canker bacteria invade the leaves and spread rapidly throughout the tree. The disease affects only certain types of citrus trees and is not harmful to humans ...

Dear Neil: This happened to my Mexican plum last summer. What caused it, and what can I do to prevent it this year?