What’s Happening To Japanese Yews And Rhododendrons?
by Art Drysdale by Art Drysdale email: art@artdrysdale.com Art Drysdale, a life-long resident of Toronto and a horticulturist well known all across Canada, is now a resident of Parksville, British Columbia on Vancouver Island, just north of Nanaimo. He has renovated an old home and has a new garden there. His radio gardening vignettes are heard in south-western Ontario over two radio stations: Easy 101 FM out of Tillsonburg at 2 PM weekdays and CD98.9 FM out of Norfolk County at 11:40 AM weekdays. Art also has his own website at http://www.artdrysdale.com May 6, 2001 A typical sight this year: Japanese yews dieing as a result of chewed roots by black vine root weevil larvae. Author photo. Driving and walking around several Toronto neighbourhoods in the last few days it seems to me that there is an exceptional number of Japanese yew (Taxus) and Rhododendron plants in big trouble. Many, many of them both in older established hedges, and in newer plantings (in the case of the yews) and nu
