Q. Why is my lemon tree losing its leaves, yet small fruit are still attached? Debra Korman, San Jose A. There are a few reasons that lemon trees drop their leaves. Although we grow citrus in the Bay ...

Leaf miners can make a mess of lemon trees but these simple strategies will limit the damage and keep these pests away. Citrus leaf miners are voracious garden pests that chew through healthy young ...

DEAR GARDEN COACH: Recently the gardening section ran an article about a citrus pest, kind of a lacy wing critter. I inherited a lemon tree in a tub planter and noticed what I think is this pest. As ...

On your citrus tree late last summer, did you notice little gray or black meandering trails on the young leaves? And a bit later, realize that many of those same leaves were rolled into bumpy ...

Citrus is the best-seller at area winter fruit tree sales. Harris County Master Gardeners, for example, will have an assortment of grapefruit, lemon, lime, orange, satsuma and tangerine cultivars at ...

Q: I received two citrus from a friend's garden. They have that pest that makes squiggles on the leaves. Should I treat them with an insecticide before or after I plant them? — R.S., Houston A: It's ...

Q: My Meyer lemon is about seven feet tall and is covered with small, green fruit, but it has lost most of its leaves. What should I do? A: Citrus tend naturally to drop some leaves during blossoming ...

When I started my horticultural career in New Orleans back in 1980, my memory of growing citrus seems so easy. White flies and other sucking insects and the sooty mold they caused were the only major ...