Experts recommend that you use bubblers or drip irrigation systems that deliver the water very close to the young plants.

CNN: X-rated yards save the environment

The disease has caused widespread damage to ash tree populations in continental Europe and is particularly destructive to young plants.

BBC: Ash dieback: Government holds talk on potential threat

But nurturing young plants is tough work, and returns are slow.

ECONOMIST: Grenada

Specifically they discovered that Pythium ultimum, a fungus that attacks aubergines, peppers, lettuces, tomatoes and cucumbers as seedlings, Clavibacter michiganensis, a bacterium that kills young plants and deforms fruits, and Streptomyces scabies, a second bacterium, which causes potatoes to develop revolting scabs and for which no treatment currently exists, all stopped growing in the presence of the oil.

ECONOMIST: Tobacco extracts protect plants from pests and pathogens

The commission said all of the sites had received stocks of young ash plants from nurseries within the past five years.

BBC: Survey in forest

In recent years carmakers like Toyota have had a more difficult time luring young workers to their plants, where many employees traditionally lived in Spartan corporate barracks, notes McElroy.

MSN: The hollowing out of Japan��s auto industry

The nurseries are tent-like webs which adult females have built on water soldier plants to care for their young in.

BBC: Rare fen raft spiders breeding in Suffolk

Chalara ash dieback was found in July in five young trees out of a batch of 100 supplied to Plants Ltd in Woodcock Lane, Chobham.

BBC: Chalara ash dieback found at Chobham nursery

This year's displays heavily feature native British plants and the Royal Horticultural Society said it was hoping to inspire young people to start gardening.

BBC: Chelsea Flower Show visited by the Queen

He presided over Kew Gardens and had a hand in all colonial affairs, and he sent eager young botanists to Australia, Africa, North and South America, to hunt new plants and ship them home to Kew.

NPR: Excerpt: 'Natives and Exotics'