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Extension Gardening & Horticulture Resources for You
Visit the Extension Horticulture website for all your gardening information needs.
Looking for advice on gardening? Not sure where to start?
Upcoming events can be found at Calendar of Events
Any questions? Please contact: Peggy Damann, Statewide Horticulture Outreach Specialist, email: peg.damann@wisc.edu
Fact sheets for those commonly asked about in our county are listed below.
INVASIVE SPECIES
A fact sheet on many invasive plants and insects can be found on the DNR website. DNR Invasive Species Website
Information on common invasive plants and insects for Richland County include:
- Emerald Ash Borer
- Preparing Wisconsin’s Forests for the Emerald Ash Borer
- Native Borers and Emerald Ash Borers Look-alikes
- Questions and Answers: Emerald Ash Borer Quarantine
- Emerald Ash Borer Calls from General Public
- Multiflora Rose
For information on classification of woody plants and vines, check out this site: Terrestrial Plants
FACT SHEETS
- Lawn Facts (2 pages, 118 KB)
- Mini Facts on Plants (2 pages, 160 KB)
Publications:
- Cabbage Looper
- Colorado Potato Beetle
- Cucumber Beetles
- Drought and Watering Ornamental Plants
- Drought and Watering Trees Jull
- Flea Beetle
- Imported Cabbageworm
- Japanese Beetles
- Keeping your Grass Alive During Periods of Extended Drought
- Leafminers
- Nuisance Weevils
- Potato Leafhopper
- Squash Bug
- Squash Vine Borer
- Tomato Disorder
- Vegetable Aphids
- Webworms
WHAT’S BUGGING YOU?
Check out the UW-Madison Department of Entomology to find the identification of those mysterious insects and learn what to do about them.
RELATED HORTICULTURE LINKS OF INTEREST
- Herb Society of America
- Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center
- National Pesticide Information Center
- Ohio State University PlantFacts
- Plant Information Online from the University of Minnesota
- Rock Garden Plants Database
- University of Connecticut Plant Database
- USDA Plants Database
- UW – Department of Entomology Insect Diagnostic Lab
- UW – Plant Disease and Diagnostic Clinic
- UW – Soil and Plant Analysis Laboratory
- UW – The Wisconsin Gardener – Public TV
- Weed Science Society of America
- Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources
- Wisconsin Horticulture Publications
- Wisconsin Master Gardener Program
- Wisconsin Phenological Society