Horticulture

Twin Creeks District is dedicated to providing research-based information for all your horticultural needs. From gardening to lawn care to windbreak management, we can answer your home landscape questions and provide educational programming based on your needs. Other services we offer include field calls, soil sampling, plant identification, plant disease identification and more.

RESOURCES FOR PLANTING TREES

Kansas Forest Service Conservation Tree Planting Program

Selecting and Planting a Tree

Shade and Ornamental Trees for Kansas

Trees and Shrubs That Attract Songbirds and Wildlife

RESOURCES FOR COMMON TREE PROBLEMS

 

Iron Chlorosis of Trees

 

 

Helpful Publications:

Lawn and Garden Pests:

Turfgrass

• Ants
• Clover Mites
• Chiggers
• Crickets
• Grasshoppers
• Mosquitoes and West Nile Virus
• Turfgrass Insect Pests
• Annual White Grubs in Turf
• Winter Grain Mites
• Buffalograss Webworms

Garden

• Early-Season Vegetable Insect Pests
• Grasshoppers
• Pests in the Flower Garden
• Squash Bugs and Squash Vine Borers
• Tomato and Tobacco Hornworm
• Asparagus Beetle
• Spider Mites on Tomatoes

Tree and Shrub

• Bagworms
• Borers: Common Kansas Species
• Borers: Management and Prevention
• Boxelder and Red-shouldered Bugs
• Elm Leaf Beetles
• Emerald Ash Borer
• European Pine Sawfly
• Hackberry Nipplegall Maker (Psyllids)
• Japanese Beetle
• Web Producing Caterpillars in Kansa