What's Wrong with My Garden.

This spring and summer has been a rollercoaster of ups and downs when it's come to the weather, and it may have left your garden looking not as fall-fabulous as you'd have hoped. In this episode, we discuss the causes and treatments of some of the issues taking off some of the shine from our fall gardens.

Here are some of the questions and topics covered in this episode:

• How to identify and treat powdery mildew on susceptible plant, like phlox and ninebark.

• Why leaves and flowers in the landscape are browning so early.

• What is boxwood blight and how to treat it.

• Other boxwood issues to watch out for to keep your boxwood healthy.

Resources mentioned during the show:

• Down the Garden Path: A Step-By-Step Guide to Your Ontario Garden.

Season 9, episode 27 - September 23rd, 2023.

Down the Garden Path Podcast

Each week on Down The Garden Path, professional landscape designers Joanne Shaw and Matthew Dressing discuss down-to-earth tips and advice for your plants, gardens and landscapes.

As the owner of Down2Earth Landscape Design, Joanne Shaw has been designing beautiful gardens for homeowners east of Toronto for over a decade. A horticulturist and landscape designer, Matthew Dressing owns Natural Affinity Garden Design, a landscape design and garden maintenance firm servicing Toronto and the Eastern GTA. Together, they do their best to bring you interesting, relevant and useful topics to help you keep your garden as low maintenance as possible.

In their new book, Down the Garden Path: A Step-By-Step Guide to Your Ontario Garden, Joanne and Matthew distill their horticultural and design expertise and their combined experiences in helping others create and maintain thriving gardens into one easy-to-read monthly reference guide. It's now available on Amazon.

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