THE FINER POINTS OF TRELLIS RUST
One thing about many of us plant health care providers is that we like a challenge. Not only do we find new plant varieties and species introduced into landscapes each year, but also new pests and diseases. A newer tree disease in our area, pear trellis rust, is one of those new (and challenging) diseases that we are going to be forced to face. European pear rust, or trellis rust, behaves a bit differently than our native cedar-apple and cedar-hawthorn…