MISC0201
Pacific Northwest Landscape Integrated Pest Management (IPM) Manual.
Culture of Key Trees & Shrubs, Problem Diagnosis and Management Options.
By Van M. Bobbitt, Arthur L. Antonelli, Carrie R. Foss, Roy M. Davidson Jr.,
Ralph S. Byther, Raymond R. Maleike. This manual will walk you through the
steps to better landscape care. It focuses on 19 key groups of woody landscape
plants common in the Pacific Northwest, providing in-depth information on
what to do, and when. Plants in your landscape will give you their all if
you take time to get to know them. Knowing which plants like full sun or partial
shade, which need well-drained soil or tolerate drought, and which are disease
resistant can save you many hours of correcting plant culture problems. You
also need to learn about landscape pests and their life cycles. Integrated
pest management, or IPM, looks at the entire landscape environment instead
of treating individual problems in isolation. For instance, you will learn
to look at the level of the problem before you spray. Plants can tolerate
a few harmful insects to better protect the beneficial ones in a managed environment.
What you believe is insect damage may actually be caused by disease or drought
stress, or even by spray drift from another section of your landscape-or someone
else's. Carefully identify your pest problem before you begin to treat your
landscape. The companion volume is MISC0194,
Landscape Plant Problems: A Pictorial Diagnostic Manual.
210 pages. Published 1996. Revised August 2002. $22.
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