Plant of the Week – August 9
Campsis grandiflora ‘Morning Calm’ photo credit: J. Coceano
Solanum quitoense photo credit: J. Coceano
Eupatorium purpureum subsp. Maculatum ‘Gateway’ photo credit: J. Coceano
Euscaphis japonica photo credit: J. Coceano
Archive for August 2010
Plant of the Week – August 2
Cornus kousa ‘Gold Star’ photo credit: J. Coceano
Vitex agnus-castus ‘Mississippi Blues’ photo credit: J. Coceano
Ophiopogon japonicus ‘Nanus’ photo credit: J. Coceano
Lagerstroemia ‘Cherry Dazzle’ ® (dwarf) photo credit: J. Coceano
Elm Injections
If you have been on campus the last two weeks, you may have noticed a Bartlett Tree Co. spray truck parked around. They have been injecting our American elms, Ulmus americana, with Arbortet fungicide to protect them from Dutch Elm Disease, Ophiostoma ulmi.
Bartlett Tree Co. treating the American elm along railroad tracks by Sharples Drive for Dutch Elm Disease. photo credit: W. Costello
This treatment is done every two years in even numbered years. Small holes are drilled into the root flare of the tree and small nozzles connected to plastic tubing are inserted. The diluted fungicide is then injected under pressure…
