On this week's Good Growing podcast the team talks with Travis Cleveland about tree diseases. Travis is an Extension Specialist in the field of plant pathology and woody plant material.

On this episode the Good Growing team talks about:

The difficulty in plant disease diagnosis and the importance of good photos.

What's happening with Virginia creeper with spots on the leaves?

An older silver maple is dropping leaves and it's spring. What's happening?

Why do all the sycamores have emptying branches with no leaves?

A dogwood only leafed out in the upper canopy. Is it dead?

What causes a Colorado blue spruce to lose needles from the bottom up?

Links to resources mentioned in the show:

A Box folder with photos of some of the plants in question on today's episode https://go.illinois.edu/GoodGrowingPhotos

Home Yard and Garden Newsletter - Maple leaf blister article http://hyg.ipm.illinois.edu/article.php?id=1068

Spruce problems https://web.extension.illinois.edu/plantclinic/downloads/Plant%20Clinic%20Report%20Spruce.pdf

Contact the hosts:

Chris Enroth [email protected]

Ken Johnson [email protected]

Katie Parker [email protected]