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Plant Woes? Get a Diagnosis

When Japanese beetles infest your garden and skeletonize all your roses, you know exactly what is happening: You can see the insects, and the damage is clearly caused by the beetles. But what do you do when the symptoms are not so cut and dried? Maybe your plants look off-color or just not right.

Our test garden had a problem like that late last summer: A bed of coleus began to look funny in a corner,see something suspicious in the garden that might be a disease, you’ll know what to do.

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