Good afternoon. Can you suggest a resource which would help me choose a hot pink crape myrtle which would stay below 6 feet tall and have very good disease resistance? Thanks so much

In the early summer, I planted a poppy flower . The lawn man pulled it out because he thought it was a weed. I replanted it but it never flowered. What do you think happened should I leave it in the ground, during the winter for next spring? Is it a perennial or annual?

Normally by this time of year our 4 large oak bur trees would be dropping lots of acorns. This year we have not seen a single acorn so far and when I looked with binoculars for acorns in the branches/leaves on the trees, I don't see any in the tress. The trees look healthy. What is happening?

I have an old chart mostly faded out, published by then Emily W. Brown, Assistant agent dealing with food and nutrition. Chart contains EGG WEIGHT PER DOZEN, beginning with Jumbo and down to PeeWee. It also provides other information with some formulas for determining price. Unfortunately, my document is too faded out be able to read all the extenuating information. Is there a current document available that would supply the same information as I have a grandchild who is currently pursuing egg production? Thank you.

Hi there, my walnut tree is dropping baseball-sized nuts this year, with considerable velocity, and I'm concerned someone may get hurt. My yard is a small city lot, and we use the outdoor space. The nuts drop on my garage roof and bounce off, and many drop into the yard and gardens directly. I'm also concerned about damage to my garage roof. But I love the shade and don't want to take the tree down. Is it possible to sterilize female walnut trees? Thanks!

Should I fertilize my perennials and flowering shrubs in the fall?

Hello! I am building a pollinator garden on my back cement slab at my rowhome in Baltimore, but I don't know what soil to buy and where to buy it from. Using this book (https://dnr.maryland.gov/criticalarea/Documents/chesapeakenatives.pdf), I have picked Butterfly milkweed, Joe-Pye weed (Eupatorium fistulosum), Tulip Poplar (Liriodendron tulipifera), Golden Alexanders (Zizia aurea), and Rue anemone, windflower (Thalictrum thalictroide) to plant. They all seem like they will be happy in loamy soil with a pH around 5, but I don't know where to get the soil. I need around 119 cubic feet to fill the planters. Can you recommend a place?

I and others have noticed that a ton of lilac bushes look like they're dying. It started a few months ago, with brown and yellow spots appearing on leaves. Then they all dried up and the bushes are brown. I've noticed a common factor among the affected plants is that they're the purple varieties, and in many cases they were shrubs that were more or less seriously pruned last summer/fall. Most of the white lilacs seem OK, and the young pale purple lilac I have, which I've never pruned, is fine. Photos here are from August 24 up to September 14.

Our community garden has been asked what to do with squash vines that may be infected with disease or pests after the harvest. Leave to freeze? Burn? Put in trash? Burning on site is nit an option, they would have to be removed first.