defoliation of Elders
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Comments (21)I'd love to see it, whaas, I've always shyed away from Platanus despite the fact I love them - the P. occidentalis due to the horrible anthracnose most get here, and the P. x acerifolia due to the rusty appearance the leaves get in mid to late summer due to the combo of heat/dryness/mildew. Most of the LP's around here have already mostly defoliated, while the American Sycamores are nice and healthy NOW, but due to springtime anthracnose, didn't look fully leafed out until almost July. If this cultivar holds up at least reasonably well on both ends, I might consider it. FWIW almost ALL London Planes around here I believe are 'Bloodgood'. Now I can't speak to the differences between MD and WI as far as leaf issues overall, but if your tree looks generally better than the Bloodgood LP would, then I'd probably give it a try....See MoreWhat's wrong with my Boxelder (Acer Negundo)?
Comments (7)I don't see that you asked anyone if they like box elders or not. I have one in my front yard that is 40 or 50 feet tall. I too have the problem of it messing my lawn with leaves all summer, and more and more in the last couple of weeks but I'm not about to cut it down because it's not other people favorite tree. Maybe I like trees like I like women, a bit on the trashy side. I'm sure your question was along the lines of are others having more of a problem this year and is their anything that can be done to mitigate the problem. Summer before last my tree lost so much leaf so fast in late summer that I was concerned that it might have some borer problem. I know now that wasn't the case and it was probably heat and drought related. It has recovered well last year and this and the canopy looks healthy. But we had a wet spring and a wet early summer. Now it seems that a dry spell may be affecting it again with more leaf drop. My neighbor threw out an old ross root feeder and tonight I was fooling with it as a way to get water in the ground. I also have a medium sized maple and next door, right up against my property are 4 very tall pines and a fifth large tee. So that's 7 trees in about 40 feet of space. The ground between the elder and the 5 trees is hard as a rock after not more than a week of no rain. I water the yard there but it seems to get sucked up in a hurry. Is there anything to the idea of watering with that kind of feeder that can have an effect on the situation? I'd have to get a different one as the old one leaks to much from the feed jar so I'm open to ideas within reason cost wise. I'm open to watering the tree but it's right at the sidewalk and I don't really want the water just running into the storm drain....See MoreRed Bug Conifer Killer ID Needed!
Comments (4)So a website search says they don't do damage to homes or "house plants", etc. I'll leave the web address I just read, but I swear, my serbian spruce started to defoliate and about two weeks later while I was watering - - - I see literally hundreds of these things leaving the shrub while I spray it... so, I figured immediately, obviously, they were the problem, and while I was spraying the shrub, the needles all came off! lol (I wasn't mad, actually more surprised than anything) So my next question is: what's the deal with these critters? I have tons of plant material here - mostly conifers and rhododendrons and deciduous azaleas and A LOT of Clematis. Anything I should be concerned about? Last question - Were these even the cause of my conifer loss last year? I wonder now. Thanks again, thanks very much. Dax Here is a link that might be useful: Pest Control Canada .com...See MoreYour Top 3 Most Hated Trees
Comments (69)While this thread has been bumped, anyhow... Campanula: Taxus baccata fastigiata ("death - the gloomiest tree alive") These perceptions depend a lot of climate. Sorry, our beloved UK brethren...your COUNTRY being gloomy is part of the problem! Yearly hours of sun: Liverpool 1500 London 1630 Seattle 2169 Syracuse, NY 2119 (upstate NY considered rather cloudy by CONUS standards) Baltimore 2580 Los Angeles 3254 In fact in my all-too-brief time in Mediterranean areas, like the outskirts of Barcelona, I thought dark evergreens have the opposite of a gloomy effect. When the sun is blazing down on rocky, dry hills, the green of a carob tree looks like an oasis. Same with the Q. agrifolia of Ventura Co. CA etc. etc. It would be a different kind of gloomy if those areas just looked like the surface of the moon....See Morecarolb_w_fl_coastal_9b
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