HELENA — Ahead of temperatures cooling down within the next few months, folks are out enjoying some of the last big blooms of the season, and one avid gardener in Helena reached out for help to solve a plant problem he is having.

"It's very different every day," said Sofia Franzluebbers, a Montana State University agriculture extension agent in Lewis and Clark County.

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She received a call from Len Walch after he noticed something was wrong with the mugo pine in his front lawn.

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"I've worked in gardens and stuff a lot, and I knew it was getting stressed," Welch said.

From a brief conversation and a look at the pine, Franzluebb

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