Plant Health and How it Affects Private Gardens: Experience from a Botanic Garden Pathologist

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  • Stephan Helfer Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh

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https://doi.org/10.24823/Sibbaldia.2005.112

Abstract

Like many other botanic gardens the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE) provides advice about plant pests and diseases to amateur gardeners. This paper summarises the main problem plant categories (such as trees and vegetables), plant problems (such as pests or fungal infection) and other observations, such as number of enquiries by month noted by pathology staff at the Garden over the last twenty years.

Author Biography

Stephan Helfer, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh

Stephan Helfer is a Plant Pathologist at RBGE

References

HELFER, S. (2000). Plant Health in private urban gardens in Scotland. Backhaus G.F., Balder H. & Idczak E. Plant Health in Urban Horticulture. Mitteilungen der Biologischen Bundesanstalt fur- Land and Forstwirtschaft Nr 370:287.

HELFER, S. (2003). Plant Pathology in private gardens 8th International Congress of Plant Pathology II, offered papers 136.

INGRAM, D. & ROBERTSON, N. (1999). Plant Disease-A Natural History. Harper Collins.

KENDRICK, B. (2003). The Fifth Kingdom. Cd-rom Mycologue Publications

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Published

2005-10-31

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Helfer, S. (2005). Plant Health and How it Affects Private Gardens: Experience from a Botanic Garden Pathologist. Sibbaldia: The International Journal of Botanic Garden Horticulture, (3), 51–57. https://doi.org/10.24823/Sibbaldia.2005.112

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No. 3 (2005)

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