Garden Pests

Protect Your Landscape from Insect Pests

Insect pests cause significant damage to gardens and landscapes. In our service area on Chicago’s North Shore and Southeastern Wisconsin, we see the evidence of this every day. Although not all insects are harmful, the damage...

Garden Pests

Bugs and Garden Thugs

Pests large and small and how to protect your defenseless plants Let's face it, it can be a war zone out there for all those expensive plants we invest into our landscape beds to establish color,...

Garden Pests

Watch for Boxwood Blight this Spring!

Having a nursery of our own at Van Zelst, Inc. we strive to stay on top of new plant diseases and insect pests. The topic that many growers in our area have been discussing is boxwood...

Garden Pests

Be on the lookout for…

Viburnum leaf beetle could be the next nuisance insect in the same vain as Japanese beetles. One of the most popular and easiest to grown shrubs is the Arrowwood Viburnum (Viburnum dentatum), which means it's fairly...