|
|
Article: Tiny bug puts a big bite on sagos: Cycad scale is fast killing off one of the state's most popular landscape plants.
- Article from:
- The Orlando Sentinel (Orlando, FL)
- Article date:
- November 19, 2006
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2006 The Orlando Sentinel. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
|
Byline: Kelly Griffith
Nov. 19--LAKELAND -- Tom Broome considers himself a scientist, and he's frustrated. His latest experiments target a killer bug that threatens to wipe out Orlando's sago population in the next decade or so. With the way things are going, his frustration mounts. "Forty percent to half [of king sagos in Orlando] are already gone," said Broome, owner of The Cycad Jungle in Lakeland and president of The Cycad Society, an organization with members worldwide. "Orlando has spread faster than any city I've ever seen." In South Florida, 80 percent of the popular landscape plants are already dead, and the destructive insects responsible for their ...
Related newspaper, magazine, and journal articles:
|
|
Chapter 11 Maintaining landscape plants.(SECTION II The ...
Ornamental Horticulture, Science, Operations & Management, 3rd ed.;
January 1, 2001 ;
700+ words
... ... and shrub plantings. * prune trees and shrubs correctly. * maintain annual and perennial flower plantings. * winterize landscape plants. SUSTAINED CARE OF PLANTINGS As important as the design and proper installation of landscape plantings is their ongoing ...
|
|