Young tree hit by a fallen fence -what is the right way to save it ?
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Comments (15)Mine is the poor Nigrescens that survived the Blue Spruce roots, the dog and roundup. A few years ago I got the bright idea to trim the bottom branches off the Blue Spruce in our yard and put a bed under it. Planted it full with Sum and Substance, Blue Angel, Krossa Regal, Nigrescens and a few others. After a couple years I noticed the Hosta seemed to be coming back smaller than the year before. Long story short the Blue Spruce has roots that grow like a cross between hairballs and spaghetti. They were just choking the life from the hosta. Problem was, I was out of room and didn't have anywhere to move them to. I slowly made space to move them one at a time to other areas. By the time I was ready to move the Nigrescens it was down to one eye and withering fast. I removed it and separated the spruce ball of roots and gave it a good soaking in super thrive and put it in the ground in its new home. It sat there status quo for the rest of the year. This year it comes up as one lonely eye and when it's about 3 inches tall, the dog not only steps on it, but decides to lay on it as well. I thought it was a goner so I kinda wrote it off. A few days later we get a pretty heavy frost and I'm sure it's done at this point. A couple weeks later I'm making the annual trek with the roundup around the edge of the beds and there is a couple weeds popped up where the Nigrescens was so I give them a good shot of roundup. To my surprise nestled right there in the weeds is a tiny little sprout. Sure enough, the little guy was trying to make a comeback and I just shot it with weed killer. I washed off the little leaf and pulled the weeds around it, watered the area in an attempt to dilute the roundup I just sprayed, and said a little prayer. It's still one lonely eye but it gets a little bigger every day. It may be permanently hurt but I don't feel like I can give up on it now. Ya' just never know....See MoreBook of the Week
Comments (5)In my past days, if I started a book I would always finish it. My time is too precious now,and if it doesn't grab me quick I'll put it down. I just started reading a Picoult book that I can't into, so I'm on to something new. My Dad instilled the love of reading in me, and sometimes I think books saved my life in those difficult adolescent years. Both of my twenty-something children love to read, also. We started with "Pat the Bunny" and "Goodnight Moon" and now that they are young adults it's more like "Game of Thrones", but hey they are reading. Thanks, and keep them coming....See MoreStarting with a clean slate
Comments (13)Pressing on with a few thoughts for Senior citizens and landscaping...BE SELFISH! Make a list of your selfish needs before sketching plans. Design for personal comfort. Probably the #1 idea my customers found that fills a great need during the aging process is adding a sun room or covered, shaded patio area to the house. And all wished they had thought about this in the early stages of landscaping or building. If privacy is needed, spend the dollars and solve this problem first providing peace of mind and allowing for enjoyment of the property. I have worked with numerous elders rankled by neighbor activity which really affects their health and well being. Some sad stories told. Yet, a reluctance to deal with the problem. Design for the day when the body begins to announce its age necessitating the need for outside maintenance help. Is it really necessary to plant numerous deciduous trees which mandate heavy leaf raking in the fall? Is a meatball, evergreen shrub planting along the house front which requires precise trimming several times a year necessary? These may be easy and welcome jobs today.....but tomorrow? This winter season is a good time to study guides for your area and visit the local Extension office learning of shrubs and small trees which do not need pruning. If there is to be a vegetable garden (hopefully) figure out a design which hides the composting area, perhaps a fenced garden on which climbing plants can be secured. Think. Make lists. Study. Then, design. It makes digging in the dirt a lot more fun. And, you have permission to include a bit of an herb garden near the kitchen door. This should be a garden with "personality". Found objects, fairy houses (maybe?), kitsch...something that is fun to play with and change. The Grand kids love it!...See MoreCan I save her?
Comments (6)Maybe it is time to let her go and replace her with a quality hardwood tree that you won't have to worry will fall on your house during a severe storm and damage it and possibly hurt you all. I know that's not the answer you're looking for, but I'm just trying to look at it objectively as someone who is not emotionally invested in the tree. Between our severe thunderstorm/tornatic weather and winter ice storms, once a tree is as sick as that elm, it really becomes a huge hazard.....an accident waiting to happen. We had a lot of huge elm trees of all kinds in our woodland when we bought this land in 1997. We did not leave any of them standing in the part of the woodland that is directly adjacent to the house because we didn't want for them to fall on the house after it was built. Now, many of the elms that were once dominant in the woodland are lying on the forest floor, rotting away. As each one sickened, weakened and crashed to the forest floor (while fully leafed out, of course) over time, I did mourn the loss of a once gigantic and grand shade tree. At the same time, though, I knew it is the nature of things that weaker wooded trees like elms die sooner rather than later and that the then smaller oak trees growing beneath them would grow and fill the void in the woodland, which they have. Trees tend to die from the inside out, so that a tree that still leafs out and looks surprisingly good may be dying slowly over time on the inside. Look at your tree. Look at the rotten area to the left of the area which y'all just cut off. I would bet there is rot on the inside underneath that sick looking bark. Having rot that low in the tree when the tree is in your yard and is tall enough to fall on the house is a really bad thing, and you cannot stop the rot once it begins. Only a certified arborist could look at the tree and assess its health properly and tell you if it is worth saving, but just from looking at its outward appearance, I wouldn't want that tree near my house or near the yard where my children play. I was just looking at our largest dead elm tree lying on the forest floor yesterday. It is near where Chris is building his house and I am glad it came down before he chose that home site. That tree came down limb by limb over time before it finally rotted enough in the center that the whole thing just toppled during a storm. Now, it lies there on the ground looking like a big pipe----so much of the trunk is hollowed out from rot that your kids could probably run through it like it is a tunnel. It is scary to think of having a tree that rotten in the middle still standing and 60-70' tall. It's only been a couple of years since it fell, but it lost limbs for 10 or 12 or more years before that. Had it been close to the house, we would have taken it out ourselves. The hard thing about removing a dying tree in a dense woodland is that if you try to cut it down, it often falls only so far and then leans against the nearest tall tree, leaving a hazardous situation. This particular tree didn't have that problem. When it crashed to the ground, it was so large that it took down everything around it. I don't want that to happen to you, because in your case, the everything around it is structures, vehicles, people....not woodland trees and underbrush. Is it hard to give up a large tree that is a landscape feature and that provides a lot of shade? Of course it is, but that tree is dying. Once a tree is dying ,it is better for you to be in control of when and how it comes down, and not vice versa. Dawn...See MoreBillMN-z-2-3-4
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