Radar Weather Update: This takes you to radar weather forecasting via the Internet.

"Pretty Accurate" for tracking storm cell activity, it can be zoomed.

There is a Castle Pines North Garden and Flower Club, which is a non-profit organization who serve the community through education, conservation, horticulture, and landscape design.

The group meets monthly on the Third Thursday of each Month at 6:30. Call the President Sandra Tillman-Daniels at 720-733-1561 for more information. Maybe they could do a monthly garden update as one of their community projects.

Find out more about the Colorado Federation of Garden Clubs, Inc. by visiting their site. (4-1-02).

Boy Scout Troop 637 is offering aeration and fertilization in both the Spring and Fall. Call them at 303-814-09356 or reach the troopmaster by email to schedule this timely (and necessary) lawn maintenance. (more about this troop)

We are at around 6100-6300 feet in elevation in CPN.

We get less moisture than the surrounding areas in rainfall.

We haven't had a gully-busting downpour since 1991.

Last year we offered a plant swap, not a soul was interested. This is the concept's last chance...

Tell us what plants you have to swap. This is how it all used to be done, before Wal-Mart. Things grew better too.

Metro District Water Use Info

Our start on assembling resources

Douglas County Cooperative Extension

Master Gardener: 303-660-7313 in Castle Rock or email them at mgardenr@douglas.co.us.

PlantTalk Colorado ™ - the online resource has text versions of all the PlantTalk scripts.

Call them at 888-666-3063 if you want the phone version.

Denver Botanic Gardens - remains a classic info source. Plus the Plant Sale on May 11-12 is swell.

One of the causes is a fungus pathogen that attacks trees (or parts of trees) that are injured or in a weak or stressed condition. It can cause death of the tree.

Physical signs: Liquid ooze (yellow or orange-brown) on the bark with sunken dead areas of bark with black pinhead-sized speckling or pimples.

Download the CSU factsheet about the disease of Cytospora canker.

Bacterial wetwood is a common disease that affects the central core or bark. Slime is the exudate generated from wetwood and is toxic to growing areas of the tree. Drought conditions increase wetwood problems.

Physical signs: Symptoms of this disorder include a yellow-brown discoloration ("wetness") of the wood, generally confined to the central core of the tree. This affected wood is wetter than surrounding wood.

Download the CSU factsheet about the diseases of Bacterial wetwood

The fungus Marssonina causes the most common foliage disease on aspen and poplars in urban and forested areas of Colorado.

Physical signs: Marssonina leaf spots are dark brown flecks, often with yellow halos.

Download the CSU factsheet about the diseases of aspen leaf spot.

Russian olive decline and gummosis

There is a disease that occurs older Russian olives (15 yrs or older) that has become more prominent in the last few years.

Physical signs: Bark exudes an amber-colored gum that hardens with time. Leaves are yellowed and there may be the death of one or more branches. Death is slow, taking between 1-7 years. Prevention is the best management.

Download the CSU factsheet about the disease of Russian Olive decline and gummosis.

www.CPNHOA.org

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