We’ve been suffering from oak wilt here in Texas but luckily it has not been too rapid in its spread.
Is anyone else (particularly east coast) seeing a maple die out lately? Tops of some maples looking bare and lots of short growth on lower limbs but overall sickly.
Ash trees are all dying or dead from the ash borer, I know, but geez, the maples now what's wrong with them?
I've got a lot of trees on this property but of course, the ones closest to the house look the worst.
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We’ve been suffering from oak wilt here in Texas but luckily it has not been too rapid in its spread.
Unchecked mistletoe is killing our red maples.
Will soon be getting them removed, and replace in the fall with heritage apple trees.
Weezie
Maples are very sensitive to many changes in their environment. Google 'maple decline". Read the Wikipedia section.
Interesting, fuse.
I'm intrigued by the apples but don't they also require a fair amount of tending and trimming?
We don't have mistletoe right here but I've heard the tales.
Nothing incites bodily violence quicker than a Duke fan turning in your direction and saying 'scoreboard.'
Nothing incites bodily violence quicker than a Duke fan turning in your direction and saying 'scoreboard.'
Glad to help..
Anyone taking precautions against the Spotted Lantern Fly?
Ground zero was in PA and VA but spreading fast from what I understand. I know we have some on our property, thinking about getting some of those stick bands.
There’s only one way to learn 😳
NC State has a lot of online info.
We had four trees in our front yard- two Bradford pears and 2 red maples. The Bradford pears split so we removed those.
We “harvested” mistletoe for Christmastime from the maples for several years. Its really aggressive, has basically killed the one maple and we see it has spread to the other.
These are probably 30’ maples, maybe bigger.
We’ve learned that apples require cross pollination so we’ll likely end up with 2 apple trees, each a different type. Not sure our yard is quite big enough for four.
I’d also like to do some blueberry and blackberry bush planting.
We had to cut down my mom's favorite maple a couple of years ago. She is still mourning the loss. It was definitely sick. I lost a bunch of Leland cypress last summer b/c of the heat ( and have seen a bunch around town dead as well), but no great loss. I don't like them anyway. Except for greenery at Christmastime. There has also been some kind of crud killing off the cedars, which DOES bother me.
Sage Grouse
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I have a cedar in my backyard that is having issues, but I don't see the signature teliohorns associated with cedar apple rust. Just a lot of empty brown branches ending in green tips, where there used to be all green. I think it is likely past saving at this point, but I'm curious what might be wrong with it.
Nothing incites bodily violence quicker than a Duke fan turning in your direction and saying 'scoreboard.'
As long as nobody gets "cut" here, I'm good. I'll relate my brown thumb story a bit later this evening when my wife returns home after some grocery shopping and refreshes some memory details for me .
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In certain parts of the country, maple (and other types of hardwood) trees have been "attacked" by Asian Longhorned Beetles. They have killed hundreds of thousands of trees in Massachusetts.
https://www.arborday.org/trees/healt...ned-beetle.cfm
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