Questions tagged [trees]
For questions about trees: selection, planting, care, diagnosis, pruning, identification, etc. Use this tag along other mentiond topic tags [tree-care], [identification], [pruning], [diagnosis].
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Suckers on dead ash tree
My ash tree died from the ash borer, but there are suckers coming from the trunk---two questions:
should I cut the tree down?
can I keep the suckers and trim to become a tree?
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Cherry tree with wilted and dried leaves
In the beginning of June bought a cherry tree seedling and transferred it from its pot to our yard. It was doing ok but, I saw that two days ago all of its leaves were wilted and some had dried and ...
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Is Acer Palmatum Diecious, Monoecious, or another variety of ecious?
I am compiling information about plants in my garden, and studying botany for interest, and was wondering if anyone knows whether Acer Palmatum (and more broadly Acers in general) are monoecious, ...
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Jade plant stem moving in different angles
Ive had this jade plant for a few years now and its been doing well and healthy but one of the stems was bending over but about a week ago the same stem bended upward overnight and after a few days ...
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How to Get Indoor Avocado Tree to Branch Out
I have three indoor avocado trees that I have grown from seed (pictured). I have cut two off after they got fairly high and both have started a new branch (the one on the right has barely started its ...
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Accidentally grown oak trees
We have accidentally grown oak trees and our garden is simply not big enough to accommodate them what should we do with them please?
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Tree suggestion for shade but in pot
I am looking to grow a tree to have some shade on my roof in the summer. I can only plant it in a pot (not in ground), it will be a 20 gallon pot.
Can you give me a suggestion which tree to grow? It ...
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Crooked tree at the top. Bottom 50% is straight
Hi all! We have a crooked tree we just planted about a month ago. The bottom of the trunk is straight but the top is crooked. It is a pin oak. What would you suggest doing to help it grow straight? ...
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Liquidambar/sweet gum - competing leaders and potential rot in crotches
We have a large, established liquidambar tree with many competing leaders (the trunk is ~1m (3') diameter but 2 m (6') from the ground it divides into 10 or so ~300 mm (12") diameter branches). I'...
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Massive damage to trees in city parks. Can anyone help with possible herbicide identification?
Okay, I've checked the archives and can't find anything like this situation. In brief, the local idiots (I'm being charitable here, believe it or not) who run my city's Parks Dept vastly screwed up ...
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Should I top a dawn redwood (metasequoia glyptostroboides) growing between buildings?
I have a dawn redwood in my city garden. It's starting to grow higher than the surrounding buildings (about 20 to 25 metres), leading to higher winds near the top than the tree was used to for the ...
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Is it safe to put mushroom plugs in living trees?
I'm looking at ordering about 500 spawn plugs, and was wondering if it's safe to put mushroom plugs directly into live trees, and let them sap over while temporarily using tape caps to protect the ...
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How big around does the trunk of a Fuyu Persimmon tree get?
How big around does the trunk of a Fuyu Persimmon get?
I have a newly planted Fuyu Persimmon tree that we are wanting to build a deck around. I want to make sure I give the tree enough of a hole to ...
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How should I care for a new Mimosa tree growing out of an old Mimosa stump?
We lost an old Mimosa to borers and it fell over in a wind storm. This spring it started a new growth out of the cut stump.It looks healthy but is growing RAPIDLY and it does not have much space. We ...
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Privacy screen recommendation for narrow strip of land by driveway
I would like to plant something on this narrow strip between my driveway and the neighbor's fence.
Goals: look good, privacy, dampen noise from neighbor's AC
The strip of land is 28" wide and on ...
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Will a 3- to 4-foot sweetgum I planted in April that's had about 90% of its leaves eaten off by a deer survive?
I just planted this spring at the beginning of April a row of 6 slender silhouette sweetgums. They were bare-root and they took a long time to come to life. It's only been about a month that they ...
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What can be planted in this large cement planter?
We have this long cement dividing planter (30”W x 20’ L) at the end of our driveway. It separates a parking spot from the back patio. I have had flowers and a veggie garden here as well. Both did well ...
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Mulberry leaves tips burning, new leaves deformed
This has started to happen about 2-3 weeks ago, and is not stopping.
One reason that I think caused all this is heat. The temperature here was was about 107F(42c) for several days on and off. My ...
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Tree Identification - shaggy bark
My sister bought a new house this year. There's a tree in the yard that we can't identify. It's located in Mid-Michigan in zone 5a. The soil is mixed with rocks and sand.
The tree has shaggy bark ...
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Peach disease identification
Peach Tree is Sick 😞
My peach tree is suffering from curling leaves.
The issue started last year and persists.
This is a young tree and it only produced 3 fruits last season.
I suspected it's a ...
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Green giant Arborvitae natural fence
I want to create a 100 ft natural fence using Green Giants in the back row (30-50 ft ht) and staggering western green giant (15-30 ft ht)in the front. Is it best to mulch around each plant and mow the ...
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Best privacy trees under pine trees?
There are several big pine trees between my house and neighbor’s. We want some privacy so instead of fence, we are thinking planting some 4-5 feet privacy trees in between (red line).
Would something ...
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Can you grow a fig tree in full shade?
About 3 weeks ago I propagated a cutting from a fig tree in water. It is growing roots and almost ready to plant.
I have a nice spot for it but it will (at best) receive 1-2 hours of direct morning ...
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How to encourage new branch growth in a peach tree?
I have a white peach tree that I planted about two years ago. Last year, I found that the tree had many little dead branches so I pruned them off. After pruning, the tree now has only several long ...
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Cherry blossoms and cross-pollination
Can cherry blossoms be used to cross pollinate sweet cherry trees?
I recently got two Royal Ann cherry trees to plant in my yard. After planting them, I noticed on the card that came with the trees ...
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Lilac tree disease
I have a pair of lilacs, very close together, which have been fine for ten years. This year they have hardly any leaves (just patches of them) and what appears to be a whiteish and partly yellowish ...
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Olive tree not flowering after pruning (2 years)
I have an olive tree that was beautiful, full of leaves and producing fruit. Well, my gardener thought it was a good idea to prune the tree 2 years ago.
The leaves never came back, only at the bottom ...
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What kind of tree is this, and is the white "powder" on some leaves mean it's diseased?
I live in southern California and moved into a new house a few months ago which had this tree planted in front of the house. When we moved in, it was basically bare, but over the past couple months ...
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How to protect against my neighbour's trees
My neighbor has planted a row of pine trees along our boundary. The trees (perhaps 10 of them) will grow to 14m tall, yet are barely 4m from my house (and 2.5m from his). The ground is heavy with ...
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what powdered fungicide is equivalent to captan 50
The spray I use for apple trees is a combination of imidan and captan 50. I find that captan is no longer available. What powder fungicide can I buy that is effective as captan?
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What factors could cause a young oak tree to leaf out late?
I have a young oak tree (ETA: It is a White Oak) that has been in its current location for 7 or 8 years. This year it is very late leafing out. In fact, it has only just started getting leaves in the ...
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Do I need to worry about the water dripping from the cut branch of the tree?
It's been two month since the branches were cut, and the water has been dripping from it since then; a small pond has formed. Is this something to be worried about?
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spiral tree trunk growth
I’d like to create a helical twist in the trunk of a young tree. I’m talking about a spiral grain, not just bending it into a coil, etc.
Here’s an example:
I’ve read that it’s still not well ...
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If I keep the flowerpot small
Let's say you want to grow a tree on your balcony. Will the height of the tree be less, if you use a smaller pot than a larger pot? Let's say on natural ground that tree can grow to 5 meters in height....
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Acer tree leaves are not growing
I planted my acer tree last year and it bloomed throughout the year very well. i havent moved it at all. this year the leaves start to come, i can see new leaves bloom but they are dying before they ...
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Can you please help me identify this tree is it a spruce?
We are looking at putting in an offer on a house, however, it has a large tree in the back garden and we are looking to see how hard it would be to care for it over the years. We don't have a clue as ...
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white foam on mulberry, ants love it
What is this white foamy thing I see sometimes on leaves and sometimes on small branches on my mulberry tree. (Don't forget to read updates below pictures.)
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I gather 3 of these foams, and ...
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What to do with this bending mulberry tree
I live in northern Mississippi. My mulberry tree is tipping a lot. Should I just get a pole and tie it to it or do something else?
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How far should a mulberry tree be from my house's foundation?
I have a 17 year old huge mulberry tree in my backyard, about 29 ft from the house. Also it's close to the backyard drainage. Is that OK or could it harm the house foundation?
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How should I water and feed lilac bushes?
How often should I water and what should I feed the lilac bushes to make them flourish?
Some have lichen on branches.
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What’s best way to prevent 6-7 ft tall Red Maple bought from Home Depot in a 2-3 gallon tub until land is cleared and ready to plant?
What’s the best way to keep alive 6-7 ft tall RED MAPLES just purchased from HD in a 3gallon tub until property is cleared and ready to plant trees permanently?
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Does our apple tree have crown gall?
We are trying to rehabilitate this apple tree. It is very much alive but had several dead branches, which we have since cut off. It was also invaded by ants, which I hope we have scared away.
We ...
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How long will it take to grow branches back on a Green Giant?
I just had an incompetent Arborist prune my Green Giant. For some unknown reason he cut 4 branches totally off leaving a huge bald spot front and center of my row a arborvitaes. They claim it will ...
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Can new branches be grafted to cedar hedge stump?
I have a large cedar hedge that in most parts is very full and dense, but due to excessive outward growth and lack of consistent pruning, there are sections that are very open and "woody", ...
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Any idea what's girdling my apple tree?
I've got a small (and always struggling) apple tree in my yard, which just looked at for the first time this spring and discovered that the bottom foot or so of outer bark is mostly missing.
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Plants near bonsai
Few weeks after using a fertiliser, couple of plants started to grow near the tree. Can someone recognise what kind of plants they are? Should I remove them?
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OK to fill a tree trunk with soil and plant in it?
We have an old apricot tree where the trunk sustained unknown damage (It was here when we bought the house, so we don't know what happened to it, specifically) and is mostly hollowed out:
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Trim Jane Magnolia to be a single trunk or leave as a group?
I have a small jane magnolia tree (~3 ft tall). Can (or should?) I trim it to be a single trunk, or is it intended to be a multi-trunk / bush like this?
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Bought avocado tree in a deteriorated state after being +1 week wrapped for sending
I bought a grafted avocado plant (it ended up being more like a small tree). The main problem is that it was sent on the 24th of March (Friday). It should have arrived on the 28th but it seems they ...
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Sequoia Browning
I have a small sequoia tree which I got from the San Francisco airport as a seedling. I planted it in January 2012 and it has been growing (slowly) and seemed healthy - it is about a foot tall and is ...
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