Live Oak Freeze Damage
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Carpenter Aint Damage-Rot on Live Oak
Comments (3)If the tree has carpenter ants, they're in the dead part of the tree. What does it mean when you say the tree has a "white vertical fungus?" Is the bark coming off. Or is a white something sticking out of the tree? As was suggested, an onsite visit by a Certified Arborist is wise. Some charge to just visit, some don't. So ask before s/he visits. And if the tree is determined to be hazardous and could topple onto your house, you need to find a way to remove it....See Morelate freeze and heat and drought damage
Comments (29)I faired the freeze pretty well, only losing 1 rose bush that I had only planted days prior to the freeze, but it was the JB's and then the drought that have reeked the most havoc in my garden. I still consider myself fairly lucky considering the number of new plants that have survived for me. At the height of the JB infestations I succumbed and bought the Bayer rose food/pesticide for the JB's. I went out and sprayed all of my rose bushes, hibiscus and calla lillies because they were just inundated with JB's. When I was all done, I remember turning to my husband and saying, "hmm, I probably shouldn't have done all of them at once. I should have waited to see how the Bayer producted affected the plants". My rose bushes, I planted 12 in all and lost 1 during the freeze, but they were really small to begin with, no more than 6 inches tall and once I treated them I killed 4 bushes within days of the spraying. Then I was down to 7 and they were alive but not blooming. I am on a well but I am petrified of going dry, but I did hand water all my plants every other day through July and August. I've lost two more rose bushes from the drought as well as a Rose of Sharon and 1 peony tree. The other peony tree looks so sickly that I can't imagine that it's going to make it too. I'm very sorry because they were my most expensive plants and despite my vigilance they just couldn't take the lack of rain. I also lost about 4 zinnias. However, without a doubt my worst loss are my Oregon Grape Hollies, "mahonia aquilfolium". I bought 15 of them mail order and they arrived in good condition but because I had to dig such big holes in what was basically "the deep woods" it took me forever to get all of them in the ground. It took me all spring to plant those shrubs. I lost about 4 of them because it took to long to plant them. At one point I had 9 bushes that were leafing out and while I wished I had more, I was at least happy that 9 were alive. And then I decided to fertilize them with those tree spikes . . . it was late June early July, I guess the wrong time of year to fertilize and I promptly killed 5 of the 9. I nursed the 4 remaining plants but lost another 2 to the drought. So after digging 15 huge holes, that took at least 2-3 hours to dig each hole in the roots and underbrush, after all that hard work, I only have 2 pitiful little shrubs left. They each have one grayish green leaf on them and I don't know how much longer they'll last. My only salvation, is that I can at least reuse the holes and plant something else there next spring. But, I have black and blue salvia that I planted in July and they're doing well. All my lantana are blooming and they're magnets for butterflies. My verbena is doing just beautifully. My mexican petunias and begonias are blooming and surviving the heat. I planted all of them this spring and summer and for them to still be alive after the August we just had, I am completelely shocked and......See MoreHerbicide Damage to Live Oaks!
Comments (0)Be warned that we are seeing significant damage to live oaks in this region (Florida) following use of herbicides containing metsulfuron methyl. The Scott's Company replaced atrazine with msm in their "Bonus S Weed/Feed" against our advice, and had to recall the product after a few months and pay homeowners for damage to lawns. No mention of payment for oaks, but it should be happening... Here is an extension article we wrote on it: http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/fr400 Beware if you use these products (Blade, Manor, Mansion etc.) near oaks....See MoreLive oak with bark damage
Comments (8)You move too fast. I'm hardly here at all on weekends and never even had a chance to respond before your saw came out! That is/was a canker of unknown origin. I'm looking at those dark stains and thinking metal. Could someone have pounded nails into the tree way up there? Screwed something in up there? In any case, my advice would have been to monitor the situation....See MoreHU-525254581
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