Ask Burton: This week, a quick answer about issues in your containers. Those flowers in the patio pots need to look nice! Q: I have numerous pots of flowers on my patio, and many of them are getting yellowed foliage and aren’t looking their best. I fertilized them with a good granular fertilizer when I planted them up, and they get decent sunshine. Any ideas on improving them?April 12, 2022
Ask Burton: This week, the fungus is among us! Q: My flowerbeds and a row of my shrubs need some help. My coreopsis look terrible, with some of the leaves turning grey, and I have mildew and some sort of spotting on the lower leaves of my crapemyrtles. I also have a row of redtip photinias along my back fence, and they’re covered in angry red spots. My periwinkles are dying day by day – it started with a couple of individual plants, and every day, more turn brown and die.June 9, 2021
Ask Burton: Q- I have an established Japanese maple which had its edges burned by the summer heat this year; also, several newly planted shrubs that also had small amounts of damage from drying out as well. I watered twice a week all summer; do I need to increase my watering now?September 16, 2020
Ask Burton: Q: This week, instead of a question, we just wanted to pass on a quick piece of advice on lawn and landscape watering.August 26, 2020
Ask Burton: This week, an observation on the root cause of more than 80% of the plant questions we’ve received in the past three weeks.June 26, 2018
Ask Burton: Q: The leaves on my weeping redbud (pictured) are dry and the tree has started looking really bad. We just planted it in March. What do you think happened to it?May 15, 2018
