Tree Topping - Willow Tree - help!
Ben Cook
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Comments (8)Oh boy. I lost my entire reply by hitting the Back button after hitting Preview Message. In any event, THANK YOU SO VERY VERY much for your replies! In the meantime, I dug up an older pruning book of mine which dealt with the issue of losing a leader and it also had the same advice as you gave me here. So I gather that I should only be really ticked off and not panicked. :-) I appreciate it most sincerely. Though I would prefer not to have to deal with this at all! Regarding TyTy. I did look for them in Dave's Garden 'Scoop' section and they were not listed. Naively, I supposed that meant that they did mostly local business or something. In other words, I saw it as neutral/benign instead of a reason to be wary. The reason they caught my attention was that they were offering Wisteria trained as standards. They are very very pricey here in New England and quite rare. (A place in CT sells a few-year-old Wisteria 'trees' for several hundred apiece.) The ones from TyTy were not a pittance but they were not exorbitant, either. It arrived and it looks great. It surely is a Wisteria vine trained as a standard! While I have tied it up as of today, it's weathered a severe New England winter -- a major Nor'easter just last week -- standing on its own. While on the site, I decided to order some other trees because they had larger, more mature trees available at a competitive price. Again, not prices so low they were unrealistic, but competitive. So, I ordered and I was very happy. The trees very very very well-packaged and stuffed with paper strips that kept them tight but with plenty of air circulation, plenty of hydrating gel on the roots and roots structures that look very nicely established. Also, as I mentioned, they were the only ones to be 'generous in their accuracy' rather than just 'technically accurate.' (just came up with that phrase and I think I'll keep it.) My experience has been that when ordering a specimen listed as bieng 3-7' in height, it usually arrives at 3'-1/16th.' These from TyTy are actually a few years old and taller than I, and I'm about 6-2/6-3 with my work boots on. Likewise, all the trees appear to be the variety I ordered and which they are labeled. But now I am worried! Fingers crossed for when warm weather strikes us here and these plants start to wake up! Sincerest thanks again!!!!! -- Jay Here is a link that might be useful: Motto...See Moreneighbor's willow tree (please help)
Comments (24)Embothrium: Way more than once, I have seen septic leach fields so infested with willow roots they had to be rebuilt. Likewise with 4" plastic drain pipe totally clogged by roots and trapped sediment. Except for one or two cases, the willows involved were not at all large trees. This is not a question of structural damage but of the propensity of willow roots to seek out the wettest areas. Ask someone involved in keeping municipal storm water drainage systems clear if you doubt me. Certainly dwarf arctic and alpine willows present little danger. All other varieties, including the cute variegated ones at the nursery in 3 gallon pots, best to beware....See Moreblack branches and top of curly willow tree
Comments (2)Prune it out to the point just below where it is green. The wound will heal faster that way. Silax, willow, is suseptable to die back in any zone. The cooler the climate the more likely one is to have some damage. Silax is resilient and will grow out of the damage sooner or later....See MoreTree Identification of 2 trees-types of Willows?
Comments (3)I'm thinking that the first tree is some sort of Locust ("Twisty Baby" or something like that???). I've seen it being sold at Farmington Gardens. The second looks like the Golden Curls Willow. I have one in my yard....See Moreken_adrian Adrian MI cold Z5
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