Landscape Publications

The following is a list of publications that may be of help to you.  Click on to view an UW Extension publication, also available for order online at http://learningstore.uwex.edu or by calling toll free 877-947-7827.  Click on to view a fact sheet in the garden facts series.  Click on to view an info source script.

 

General

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Backyard Prairies (G2736)

 

Butterfly Gardens

 

 

Ground Covers

 

 

Landscape Plants that Attract Birds (G1609)

 

Landscaping: An Overview

 

 

Mulches for Home Gardens and Plantings (A3383)

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Ornamental Grasses

 

 

Ornamental Ponds and Fountains

 

 

Phenology (XHT1085)

 

 
Phenology: Calculating Degree Days (XHT1086)

 

 
Phenology: DD for Common Landscape Insects (XHT1088)

 

 

Planning and Designing Your Home Landscape (G1923)

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Popular Native Plants

 

 

Protecting Wood Fences for Yard and Garden (A3052)

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Root & Crown Rots  (XHT1070)

 

 
Root Rots in the Garden  (XHT1072)    

Vines in the Landscape

 

 

Winter Salt Injury and Salt-tolerant Landscape Plants (A3877)

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Deciduous Trees & Shrubs: General

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A Guide To Selecting Landscape Plants for Wisconsin (A2865)

 

Azaleas and Rhododendrons

 

Caring for Deciduous Shrubs (A1771)

 

 

Caring for New Plantings

 

Caring for Your Established Shade Trees (A1817)

 
Chlorosis (XHT1002)

 

 

Construction: Injury to Trees

 

Crabapples for Wisconsin, Top Ornamental (XHT1012)

 

 

Damage: Cracks and Splits in Trunks

 

Damage: Ice, Snow and Wind Damage

 

Deciduous Shrubs, How to Properly Prune (XHT1015)

 

 
Deciduous Trees, How to Properly Prune (XHT1014)

 

 

Diagnosing Problems

 

Fertilizing (A2308)

 

Hedges: Planting and Pruning

 

Landscape Plants that Attract Birds (G1609)

 

Living with Surface Roots

 

Mulching

 

Planting

 

Preserving Trees During Construction (A3072)

 

Pruning: Basic Methods

 

Pruning Overgrown Shrubs and Hedges

 

Selecting an Arborist

 

Selecting Evergreens

 

Selecting Flowering Crabapples

 

Selecting for Shady Areas

 

Selecting for Wet Areas

 

Selecting Shade Trees

 

Selecting, Planting & Caring for Your Shade Trees (A3067)

 
Summer Flowering Trees, Shrubs, and Vines  (XHT1016)

 

 

Tree & Shrub Fertilization (A2308)

 

 

Watering

 

Winter Protection

 

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Deciduous Trees & Shrubs: Diseases

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Anthracnose (XHT1001a)    
Anthracnose (XHT1001b)    
Anthracnose (XHT1001c)    
Ash Yellows (XHT1079)    
Aster Yellows (XHT1080)    
Black Knot (XHT1056)    

Cankers

 

 

Cedar-Apple Rust (XHT1009a)    
Cedar-Apple Rust (XHT1009b)    

Crabapple: Branch Dieback (Fireblight)

 

Common Foliage Diseases of Shade Trees in Wisconsin (A2509)

 

 

Crabapple: Premature Leaf Drop (Scab) (A2173)

 
Dutch Elm Disease (XHT1076)    

Elm Disorder: Dutch Elm Disease (A2392)

 

Fireblight (XHT1090)    

Honeylocust: Canker (A3281)

 

Leaf Browning (Anthracnose)

 

Lilac: Bacterial Blight (A2538)

 

Maple and Other Trees and Shrubs Disorder: Verticillium Wilt (A2537)

   

Maple Decline: Collar Rot and Basal Canker Complex (A2532)

 

Mountain Ash Disorder: Fire Blight (A2562)

 

Mountain Ash Disorder: Scab (A2594)

 

Mountain Ash Disorder: Sunscald-Fungal Canker Complex (A2517)

 

 
Nectria Canker (XHT1094)    

Oak and Numerous Other Species Disorder: Armillaria Root Rot (A2542)

 

Oak Wilt (G3590)  (XHT1075)

 
Powdery Mildew (XHT1005)    

Russian Olive Disorder:  Phomopsis Canker (A3289)

 
Sphaeropsis Shoot Blight & Canker (A3643)  (XHT1010)  

Sooty Mold (A2637)

 
Tubakia (Actinopelte) Leaf Spot  (XHT1104)    
Verticillium Wilt  (XHT1008)  

Woody Ornamentals Pest Management in Wisconsin (A3597)

 

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Deciduous Trees & Shrubs: Insects

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Ash Disorder: Ash Plant Bug (A3126)

 

Ash: Green Outgrowths (Galls)

 

Birch: Papery Leaves (Leafminer)

 

Birch: Top Dieback (Bronze Birch Borer)

 
Black Vine Weevil (XHT1065)

 

 

Borers

 
Box Elder Bugs (XHT1100)  
Cicadas (XHT1068)    

Deciduous Tree and Shrub Disorder: Skeletonizing by Rose Chafer (A3122)

 

Deciduous Tree Disorder: Cankerworms (A3178)

 
Deciduous Trees: Galls  (XHT1064)    

Eastern Tent Caterpillar (A2933)

 

Euonymus Caterpillar (A3633)

 

Gypsy Moth  (XHT1063)

Honeylocust Disorder: Plant Bugs and Leafhoppers (A3636)

 

 

Honeylocust: Insect Pests

 

Honeysuckle Disorder: Honeysuckle Leaffolding Aphid (A3184)

 

Japanese Beetle  (XHT1062)

Maple & Other Trees Disorder:  Cottony Maple Scale (A3123)

 

Maple Disorder: Maple Petiole Borer (A2699)

 

Maples: Bumps on Leaves (Maple Gall Mites) (A2691)

 

Oak Disorder: Two-lined Chestnut Borer (A2902)

 

Oak: Outgrowths and Galls on Leaves and Twigs

 

Outgrowths and Galls

 
Viburnum Borer (XHT1046)    

Webworms  (XHT1066)

 

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Deciduous Trees & Shrubs: Miscellaneous Disorders

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Crabapple: Problems

 

Deciduous Trees Disorder: Decline, Dieback or Early Senescence (A2510)

 

Deciduous Trees Disorder: Miscellaneous Causes of Decline (A2414)

   

Deciduous Trees Disorder: Springtime Weather Injury to Foliage (A2508)

 
Herbicide Damage (X1004)    
Home Landscape Insecticides (X1097)    

Oak and Other Trees Disorder: Leaf Yellowing (Chlorosis) (A2638)

 

Oaks: Problems

 

Plant Injury Due to Turfgrass Broadleaf Weed Herbicides (A3286)

 

Salt Injury to Landscape Plants (A2970)

Woody Ornamentals Pest Management in Wisconsin (A3597)

 

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Evergreens: General

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Evergreens, How to Properly Prune (X1013)    

Evergreens - Planting and Care (A1730)

 

Pruning

 

Selecting

 

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Evergreens: Diseases

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Colorado Blue Spruce and Other Conifers: Lower Branches Die [Cytospora Canker] (A2639)

 

Colorado Blue Spruce and Other Conifers: Rhizosphaera Needle Blight (A2640)

 

Conifers Disorders: Sphaeropsis Shoot Blight and Canker (A3643)

 
Cytospora Canker (X1003)    
Dothistroma Needle Blight (X1078)    

Phomopsis Tip Blight (X1099)

 

 

Pine Needle Diseases – Brown Spot and Lophodermium Needlecast (A2608)

 
Rhizosphaera Needle Blight  (X1006)    

Spruce: Brown Needles

 

Spruce: Dying Branches (Needle Blight)

 

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Evergreens: Insects

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Pine Disorder: European Pine Sawfly (A3180)

 

Pine: White Bumps on Needles (Pine Needle Scale)

 

Pine: Shoot Tips Die (Zimmerman Moth)

 

Spruce: Brown Outgrowths and Galls (A3288)

 
Western Conifer Seed Bug  (X1052)    

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Evergreens: Miscellaneous Disorders

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Yellow Needles in Fall [Fall Needle Drop] (A2614)

 

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