This has been one of the worst years for disease that I can remember as a gardener. Both here at the Garden and throughout the Chicago area, I have noticed many crabapples as well as serviceberries ...

There have been reports that 2024 has been a bad year for apple scab in both fresh-eating apples and crab apples. Apple scab infections on fruit start off olive-green and turn into a rough, cork-like ...

Q: Can you tell me what is wrong with my crab apple tree, and what I should do about it? The leaves started turning yellow earlier this summer and now there are hardly any leaves left. It looks awful.

Q: I have a white flowering crab that we’ve had for about 20 years. Can you tell me what could possibly be wrong that’s causing the leaf problems, and is there anything I can do? — Christine W. A: We ...

ST PAUL, Minn. — In your own yard or driving around looking at someone else's trees, you might have noticed that crabapples look terrible this year. Absolutely terrible. The culprit is a fungal ...