Q: Can you identify the plant in the photo? My daughter-in-law has it, along with a pink one. It’s considered an old-fashioned plant, and it only flowers in the fall. - Debbie O. A: The tremendous ...

Q: Here are the yucky pictures. I have had to cut all of the hibiscus plants back. That is a new bud, but it looks infected/infested, so I cut it off too. I have treated all four plants with neem oil.

Mealybugs are insects from the family Pseudococcidae, which contain more than 2000 species. Mealybugs are soft-bodied, unarmored scale insects commonly found in moist, warm habitats. “Hibiscus ...

Your plant seems to have been infested with scale insects, a type of sap-sucking pest common on perennial woody plants like the hibiscus. Spray the plant with summer oil, which is available at local ...