Many people have a potted citrus plant or two that they keep indoors during the winter and move outdoors for the summer. It may be one of those dwarf trees that produce full-sized fruit. Or it could ...

Q: What are these weird white things on my citrus trees? They don’t seem like they’re moving, but they sure do attract ants! A: Cottony cushion scale is a common pest of citrus, but can also infest ...

Earlier this week, one of my neighbors told me that her Meyer lemon tree has had a bad infestation of scale insects for several years and that all of her attempts to eradicate the pests had failed. I ...

Q. What are these weird white things on my citrus trees? They don’t seem like they’re moving, but they sure do attract ants! Cottony cushion scale is a common pest of citrus, but can also infest other ...

Here’s how to get rid of scale insects on indoor and outdoor plants.

NATIVE TO SUBTROPICAL and tropical regions, citrus is a decidedly lesser-known character in the Pacific Northwest pantheon of plants. Did you know that you can grow (relatively) hardy citrus in ...