It creeps into the garden on humid summer nights, coating leaves with ghostly white: powdery mildew. From bee balm to phlox and lilacs to apple trees, hundreds of common garden plants can be ...

“My red rhododendron looks as if it has a layer of ash or white powder on it (above). What should I do?” asks Birds & Blooms reader Steven Graves of Aptos, California. Horticultural expert Melinda ...

When tending to your garden, you'll want to make sure that your plants are in good, healthy standing. One thing to monitor your plants for is powdery mildew, a fungal disease that can easily infect ...

Gardeners dread the return of this fungal growth when the weather warms up, but luckily, our expert has the cure Tom Brown, a Telegraph columnist for four years, is head gardener at West Dean College ...

How do I treat powdery mildew? Managing white mildew on plants can be challenging. Learn a simple, natural way to keep it at bay with milk. Older strains of bee balm (Monarda didyma) are famous for ...

Steve Nix is a member of the Society of American Foresters and a former forest resources analyst for the state of Alabama. Powdery mildew is a disease common in trees that appears as a white powdery ...