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You Can Get Rid Of That Pesky Euonymus Scale Dear Plant Doctor: For the past two summers wc have been trying to figure out what has been causing the damage to our euonymus shrubs. The shrubs arc kept at approximate ly 7 feet tall and are used as a border between properties. We believe they are 12 to 15 years old. We have tak en leaf samples to a local green house operator and have been told the problem was an insect and a fun gus. We have taken leaf samples to a local greenhouse operator and have been told the problem was an insect and a fungus. We have sprayed in secticides and fungicides to correct the problem. Neither pesticide did any good. Last week we trimmed the plant back to the bare branches hoping new life would develop. Samples of the healthy and dis eased leaves are enclosed. Please ad vise us. ? Fayetteville ANSWER: Oh lawdy. . .your plant has a severe ease of Unaspis euonymL the Euonymus So*!?! This pesky insect scale will attach to just about any species of Euonymus in eastern North Carolina. The male insects cluster on the underside of leaves and stems. They appear as small (less than Hj inch), cigar-shaped, and white cottony flecks. A severe infestation of Euonymus scale will often appear fungus-like to the untrained eye. Female insects are dark brown and shaped like a miniature oyster shell. Females will be less plentiful on infested plants than males. These insects are difficult but not impossi ble to control. The key to control is to open the plant canopy for better air circula tion, light penetration and pesticide penetration. Euonymus scale is re sistant to insecticides during some phases of its life cycle, therefore control can sometimes be frustrat ing. To control Euonymus scale, try the following: 1. Prune back your Euonymus plants in late February or early March. 2. Apply a dormant oil spray making sure all leaves, stems, and branches arc totally treated. If dor mant oil sprays are too messy, apply a lime sulfur spray (calcium polysul fide) between December 1 and March 1. (Plants must be dormant or leaf burn will result.) 3. Juvenile scale insects (craw lers) are very susceptible to insecti cides like malathion and chlorpyri fos (Dursban) but adult females are not significantly affected by these products. Insecticides are most ef fective when crawlers are active during the spring and summer months. Three or more applications of insecticide (sprayed 10 to 12 days apart) may be required for total con trol. 4. The Euonymus scale will often infest surrounding vegetation like English ivy or pachysandra so be sure to treat or prune out infested plants so the problem will not recur in future years. Good luck! Dear Plant Doctor: 1 hope you can help me on this matter. For the past three years my silver maple has leafed out in the spring as normal. By early summer the leaves start turning brown. By the late summer it is bare and by the early fall it be gins leafing out again. The tree is not growing as fast as this type of maple usually does. All other trees growing around the silver maple are doing fine and do not seem affected by the same problem. ? Jacksonville ANSWER: I am unable to diag nose the pest problem from the leaf samples you sent me. Regardless of the disease or insect problem plagu ing your tree, a cure will be very dif ficult or futile. 1 have an answer but you proba bly will not like it. I am biased against silver maples (Acer sacchar tnum ) because they are messy, have poor limb structure (prone to limb breakage), are prone to dozens of in sect and disease problems, and are extremely prone to leaf scorch dur ing hot, dry summers. The British love these trees in their gardens but in American soil (especially southeastern North Carolina), they do not even make good firewood. Silver maples are popular with many homeowners and mail order plant nurseries because they are so fast-growing, but I rarely see a plant free of insects or disease. I recommend you properly dis pose of your silver maple and plant a native red maple (Acer rubrum) in its place. Many new locally adapted cultivars of red maple are available CENTIPEDE SOD Qressette Sod Farms 1 -800-444-2993 FLORENCE. SC in the nursery trade that will provide for excellent fall foliage and won derful shade. In addition, red maples arc less susceptible to disease and insect problems. Dear Plant Doctor: Help! I have a vine, either honeysuckle or something similar, a large planti ng of shore juniper and pampas grass. I read your article mentioning Vantage and Grass-B-Gon for orna mentals. Would either be effective here? 1 surely do not want to kill the juniper. So far I have been hand-applying Purge herbicide and cannot continue to keep this up. Thank you. ? Wilmington ANSWER: No, neither Vantage nor Grass- B-Gon will be effective for killing honeysuckle in juniper beds. These herbicides are only ef fective in killing grasses in juniper or other woody ornamental beds. Do not continue to apply Purge to your juniper beds or severe plant in jury can result Purge is an excellent herbicide for St. Augustine and cen tipede grass but can cause severe leaf yellowing and even death of many herbaceous or woody ornamental plants. The best solution to killing hon eysuckle in your shore juniper beds is to "paint" Roundup herbicide on the leaves of the honeysuckle. Use an inexpensive, disposable foam paint brush to apply 1 .5 -percent or higher solution of Roundup (accord ing to label instructions) to the leaves of the honeysuckle plant. Plants with lots of woody stems will require a higher rate of the product, and multiple applications may be necessary. Be careful that the solution does not contact any other plants. Roundup will kill what it touches! This method also works well to con trol nearly all other types of undesir able woody plants (e.g. poison ivy. sumac, greenbrier, etc.). Be sure to follow all label directions and pre cautions. Send your gardening questions and comments to the Plant Doctor, P.O. Box 109, Bolivia NC 28422. Send a SASE if requesting a reply or information. SHELTON HERB FARM [? Herb Plants no* ?Over 350 Varieties Goodman Rd o* Hwy. 17 3 M4m N. of Mmabow ISatB-5 253-5964 5441 Main St. Shallotte, NC 754-3636 Fax 754-3673 FRESH SEAFOOD salad bar SUPERMARKET KRAFT Mayonnaise at. 1 .79 ZESTA Saltines 89 ? UPTON 1 00 CT. Tea Bags 2.49 MT. OLIVE Kcsher Dills .4* ox. 1 .39 HUNTS Tomato Sauce ... .15 oz. 22 OZ. SPRAY Windex 1 .89 OUR VALUE , . Mac & Cheese 7* 1 JAMESTOWN PORK Sausage * FRESH FRYER Leg Quarters 69 Mild Or Hot 1 6 oz GRADE A CtCiC FROSTY MORN m m Turkey Breast ib . VY Red Hots t6 oz I . I V QQC LEWIS SMOKED 1 3 HT O y Sausage 10 ib. box 1 3. 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