The featured image above is of a tree that seems to be saying that it’s all going to be okay.

Heavy duty covered wire is good for pulling splayed arborvitae stems back together. You just curl it around a stem without tying it tight, so as that stem continues to grow the wire won’t choke it.

On The Garden Lady radio program on March 21st it was my pleasure to welcome entomologists Tawny Simisky, from the University of Massachusetts, and Esher Cattle, from the Barnstable County Cooperative Extension. 
 Here are the links that they mentioned on the program.  
Tick Information 
Reporting of invasive plants and insects.
Information about box tree moth.
Read about the Southern pine beetle.

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