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2025 Plant Disease Talks

Each month, the UW Plant Disease Diagnostics Clinic hosts a Zoom webinar on a plant disease-related topic. View the 2025 schedule and webinar descriptions here.

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Timely Articles for Winter Gardens

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▶ WATCH: Maintaining Your Festive Houseplants

Festive houseplants are common gifts in winter. In this video, learn how to keep a poinsettia, Christmas cactus, Norfolk Island Pine and other favorite gift plants thriving. 

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Saying Bye-Bye to Boxwood Blight: Proper Disposal of Holiday Wreaths

Holiday decorations containing boxwood foliage can be a source of disease for boxwoods in our landscapes. Learn more in this article.

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Pruning Deciduous Trees

Proper pruning controls tree size, directs growth, influences flowering, and maintains tree health and appearance. Learn how in this factsheet.

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Pruning Deciduous Shrubs

Pruning controls the size of shrubs, directs growth, influences flowering, and restores plant health and appearance. Learn pruning techniques in this factsheet.

Planning and Designing Your Home Landscape

This publication explores landscape planning: putting the plan on paper; selecting, placing, and planting trees and shrubs; and maintaining the home grounds.

Choosing the Right Christmas Tree

Christmas trees offer consumers a chance to bring nature indoors for a few weeks each December. Whether you choose a pre-cut tree available at a local tree lot or garden center or cut your own tree from a farm, you will have several tree species to choose from.

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