Solutions to summer landscape and garden problems in central Oklahoma
(WorldNews Business)

We always begin to see different kinds of damage on landscape and garden plants in midsummer. Often the symptoms are only caused by our intense heat and lack of rain and many plants will recover fine. It can be difficult to determine whether you have a disease or pest problem, or whether a symptom is just environmental stress. Wilting is an obvious heat and drought symptom on garden plants and younger or smaller trees and shrubs, but heat also often can cause the leaves to “scorch” or “burn” on the edges of tree and shrub leaves. If the damage you are seeing is only marginal and on...