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Here is what another Garden Web member had to say about your choice of fast growing trees Chippy: Posted by cascadians Oregon City, 8 (My Page) on Thu, Jan 25, 07 at 11:17 Being able to plant a 30' weeping willow is impressive. Nursery stock is of course skinnier, but still, 30' is 3X taller than my house. I planted 3 weeping willows a year ago that were skinny sticks with no branches, about 6' tall. After 1 year they're both thriving, especially one which has continued to grow through fall winter and even snow. I have a serious water run-off problem and have planted oodles of willows of all sorts. Maybe I'll need a machete in a few years to try to get through the yard. A neighbor planted a little weeping willow 3 1/2 years ago, 4'. He said it didn't do much until just after the 3rd year when it shot up and branched out dramatically. He's 2 houses downhill from me and I watch his weeping willow growing noticeably daily over his fence. Willows need a LOT of water. Nothing quite so entrancing as sitting against the trunk of a massive weeping willow and being curtained by its swaying green curtain of leaves. Beautiful! There's a massive curly willow in my front yard smack over the neighborhood 8" PVC sewer pipe. The public works guy in charge of sewers said it won't be a problem. That surprised me. It's near the fire hydrant, water meter, and sidewalk too. Very beautiful tree. It's not in a standing water area so I water it a lot so its roots don't seek more water other places. A huge branch fell off beginning of fall so we put 15 thick long branches in water for 2 weeks, then planted them. Looks like all have rooted and taken. Planted 12 of them in the uphill neighbor's yard where the water comes gushing out of the ground in copious amounts. Yes willows are a bit a work, dropping twigs all the time, but if watered they give a lot of growth fast and a lot of greenery. The birds LOVE my willows!

I have the same problem with a forsythia. I can only see the galls after all the leaves have dropped. I've been pruning them out for years. The plant has survived and continues to grow though it doesn't flower like it used to. But since it's used as a privacy screen that doesn't matter to me. The disease has yet to spread to other plants and I don't think it's likely to either. I spray my equipment with alcohol in-between cuts and I remove all debris under the shrub and put down fresh mulch after the leaves drop and then again in the early spring. Here's what gall looks like on my forsythia.

use the PHOTO button below where you type ... and load them directly from your hard drive ... we need to know if this is a 100 foot willow... or a bush type ... but basically.. it sounds like the trunk is rotting from the inside out .... and it has to go ... on on site inspection by a certified arborist is highly recommended... and that is not any monkey with a chainsaw ... if its overhanging your house.. or anything of value.. you can probably just deal with the insured monkey with the chainsaw ... really.. really need a pic .. to be any more specific ... ken