Ed Perry
Responsibilities:
Applied research and extension education programs in the area of environmental horticulture; includes landscape maintenance, arboriculture, nursery crops production, Christmas trees and urban horticulture.
Primary Research Interests:
Insect pest and disease management in nursery and landscape trees, use of plant growth regulators in landscape and nursery, nitrogen nutrition of landscape trees and use of greenwaste compost in container nursery stock production.
Publications: Weekly Horticulture News--available also by email
Horticulture Articles
- Aphids May Build Up Quickly
- Arbor Day Celebrates Trees
- Cold Wet Soils and Heavy Leaf Drop
- Cold Wet Weather and Oranges
- Cold, Wet Soils Favor Disease
- Consider Crasscycling
- Cottony Cushion Scale
- Divide Bearded Irises In Late Summer
- Early Vegetable Planting
- For Healthy Lawns, Maintain Lawnmower
- Galls On Oak Trees
- Garden Nematode Control
- Harvesting And Keeping Some Fall Crops
- Healthy Roots Lead To Healthy Trees
- Home Orchards / Deep Irrigations
- Honeybees and Squash Production
- Hoplia Beetles
- Hot Weather and The Garden
- How To Detect Insect Pests In Turfgrass
- Hungry Aphids Find Growth Attractive
- Irrigation in Vegetable Gardening
- Jumping Oak Gall
- Keep Roses Blooming
- Keep Your Flowers Blooming
- Keep Your Flowers Longer
- Landscape Plants Are Valuable
- Lawns Benefit From Fertilizer
- Leaf and Soil Tests For Diagnosing
- Leaf Spot Diseases
- Learn To Irrigate Properly
- Moss and Algae in Wet Weather
- Mow Your Lawn Properly
- Mushroom or "Toadstools" in Lawns
- Organic Mulches Keep Plants Healthy
- People And Trees Go Together
- Pesticide Info Service is Available
- Preventing Bark Beetle Injury
- Rain / Disease in Fruit Trees
- Reduce Pest Problems
- Renew Your Ground Cover
- Root Injury May Cause Tree Failure
- Roses Disease And Pest Resistance
- Solar Friendly Trees
- Spider Mites Thrive In Hot Weather
- Spring Lawn Care Is High List
- Spring Planting for Fall Colors
- Start Seeds Indoors for Early Garden
- Store Navel Oranges In a Cool Place
- Time For Pruning Conifers
- Train Young Landscape Trees
- Transplanting Trees or Shrubs
- Turfgrass Diseases Favor High Moisture
- Use Garden Pesticides Safely
- Varying Your Landscape
- Water Your Lawn Properly
- Watering Your Fruit Trees
- When To Harvest Citrus
University of California Cooperative Extension, 3800 Cornucopia Way, Suite A, Modesto, CA 95358 (209) 525-6800. FAX (209) 525-6840