I am not complaining about the weather. On second thought, I am going to complain about the weather. I can’t take much more of this cool, cloudy stuff. Bring on the hot times in our region.

I have learned the hard way that if you live long enough many inevitable events will occur. For instance, as you lose your hair on your head it will begin to come out your ears and nose.

pruning rejuvenates the rose bush. Pruning increases the air circulation through the bush and that will minimize incidence of diseases such as botrytis and powdery mildew. Pruning also removes ...

Botrytis is a fungus disease that infects the ... profusion of flowers that open white before aging to pink, then rose (the name mutabilis means change in Latin). All the colors appear at the ...

Botrytis cinerea (gray mold ... Neem oil, a well-known spray for roses, and spinosad, a natural bacterium, can be effective, but only if they are applied at the first sign of damage and reapplied ...

As wine lovers, we can’t forget Botrytis cinerea, the grey mold known as Noble Rot that under the right circumstances can affect grape bunches to create ethereally sweet wines such as Sauternes ...

IN mid-November, 1945, two cultures were made on Dox's agar of Botrytis conidia from conidiophores produced on onion leaves. These had been sent by Mr. D. E. Green of the Royal Horticultural ...

For hundreds of years, the fungus Botrytis cinerea has been key to making the world’s finest dessert wines. Now UC Davis researchers working with Dolce Winery in the Napa Valley show how the fungus ...

The disease, black spot on roses, is prevalent, as is botrytis on peonies. Remember, once you see the symptoms on your plants, it’s too late to spray fungicides. On the roses, you can prevent ...