What Gardeners Should Know About Sudden Oak Death
Suggestions for how gardeners can help prevent the spread of the pathogen that causes Sudden Oak Death.
Frédérique Lavoipierre is a freelance nature and garden writer living in Sebastopol. Her work has appeared in Pacific Horticulture, Kitchen Garden, the San Francisco Chronicle, and the Santa Rosa Press Democrat.
Suggestions for how gardeners can help prevent the spread of the pathogen that causes Sudden Oak Death.
Since 2000, sudden oak death has spread through 14 California counties, including all nine in the Bay Area, threatening our signature oak woodlands. Though rain, wind, and fog have caused...