Advice for plant problem solving

Here are resources to help you diagnosing problems with your plants.

• Help identifying plants.
• Help identifying the source of the problem: MSU Diagnostic Services or your county Extension office.
• A diagnostic guide for problem solving from MSU.
• Managing pests around the home.
• Managing pests in the landscape.
• Current growing season advice in the Landscape Alert newsletter.

Diagnostic fact sheets from MSU Diagnostic Services:

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• Apple scab
• Broad mites
• Cytospora canker (for trees)
• Daylily rust
• Early blight (tomato)
  
• Emerald ash borer
• Fertilizing trees and shrubs
• Gladiolus rust
• Hoary alyssum
• Maple tarspot
• Pine wilt disease (nematodes)
• Septoria leaf spot (tomatoes)
• Sphaeropsis blight (pines)
• Tree and shrub planting guidelines

From other universities

• Interactive Plant Manager is an online diagnostic database for woody ornamentals from Cornell University’s IPM Program