
Oak Galls in Middletown: What Those Bumps on Your Oak Leaves Mean
Oak galls alarm Middletown homeowners every May, but most are harmless. Here’s how to tell a benign leaf gall from a twig gall that could hurt your oak.
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Oak galls alarm Middletown homeowners every May, but most are harmless. Here’s how to tell a benign leaf gall from a twig gall that could hurt your oak.

If your ornamental pear or crabapple looks scorched in early May, fire blight is the likely culprit. Here’s what Middletown homeowners need to know right now.

That sorry-looking sycamore likely isn’t dying—it’s battling anthracnose, a spring fungal disease that cycles through Monmouth County every cool, wet season.

Hemlock woolly adelgid is quietly killing eastern hemlocks across Monmouth County. Late April is the prime scouting window — here’s how to spot it and act before it’s too late.

Late April leaf-out patterns are the best free tree diagnostic you have. Here’s how to read your trees’ budbreak — and when to call an arborist.

One in four maples in Middletown neighborhoods may be the invasive Norway maple. Here’s the ten-second April ID test and what to do about it.

Middletown’s flowering dogwoods are under attack from dogwood anthracnose this spring. Learn to spot the symptoms and act while treatment is still possible.

Pitch pine is among New Jersey’s toughest natives, but bark beetles, spongy moth, and root-zone disturbance are quietly stressing Middletown’s Pinus rigida.

Late April is the best moment all year to get ahead of spotted lanternfly on your Middletown property — the nymphs are just emerging and still vulnerable.

Those white silken webs in Middletown’s cherry and crabapple trees are eastern tent caterpillars — here’s what they mean for your trees and what to do this week.