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Sugar Maple: How to stop post pruning “bleeding”

admin — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 04:23:54 +0000

Name: Robert Lapple
Email: robertlapple@hotmail.ca
After removing several branches from a sugar maple in early December, the affected areas won’t stop “bleeding”. Applying Wilson Pruning spray has no effect. Any suggestions?

cottonwood trimming

admin — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 19:23:58 +0000

Name: helen
Email: hjmm@att.net
I have a cottonwood tree that needs trimming. Can that be done now without damaging the tree, or do I need to wait until spring?

hemlocks

admin — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 17:02:53 +0000

Name: mary steckbeck
Email: najmary@aol.com
We have beautiful 15 foot hemlocks on the west side of our house. In the past year they have begun to die out from the base up. What if anything can we do to stop the lower branches from dying,

Lilac Tree Fungus, or lichen

admin — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 04:32:45 +0000

Name: Nancy
Email: wfpiper@comcast.net
Found one branch or several lilac trees in my side yard with a realy strange fungus or lichen. Goes from the base of the brach to the very to, only on the south side of the branch, white, and rather beautiful. Concern it is harmful and could spread to others. Have a yard with many old beautiful trees and bushes do not want to leave unattended if it should spread or be dangerous.

Correct name for trees that look like ferns

admin — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 18:30:27 +0000

Name: Celeste
Email: celeste5757@sbcglobal.net
Hi, Can someone please tell me the correct name of the trees with leaves that look like ferns? In the fall some of them drop seed pods that are about 4 to 6 inches long. Also, can I grow one of these trees from those pods?

Ginkgo Bilobas

admin — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 22:30:55 +0000

Name: deb
Email: debcook@mac.com
I was told by a reliable sorce that all the leaves of a Ginkgo Biloba fall of the tree at once in a matters of minutes, is this true? If so , has anybody out there ever recorded this event? My brother has a small one on his property (13′) but he said that that has never happened. Can a tree expert confirm or deny this claim?

LEANING SMOKE TREE

admin — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 23:16:46 +0000

Name: LILLIAN
Email: LILIGX@COMCAST.NET
MY YOUNG SMOKE TREE (ABOUT 7′ IS LEANING SOUTH. IT IS BEAUTIFUKL AND IN FULL SUN. SHOULD I JUST TRY TO BRACE IT?

White Oak Twig Loss

admin — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 01:24:26 +0000

Name: John Wawrzyniec
Email: jwawrzyniec@comcast.net
My 300 year-old white oak, backyard environment, has dropped many hundreds of small, leafy twigs, up to pencil diameter, this Fall. Most have green leaves and the breaks are usually at a circular ring on the twig. It’s not squirrels since most have a convex protrusion at the base. None of our other oaks are demonstrating this. Any ideas on the cause?

horse chestnut trees

admin — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 19:39:40 +0000

Name: Dorothy Lamb
Email: rydmlamb@sbcglobal.net
For years I’ve always picked up a few horse chestnuts off the ground from the trees in Oak Park. Did they drop them early this year? I remember doing this every October, but there aren’t any to be picked up!

evergreen browning

admin — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 18:56:27 +0000

Name: kevin
Email: cleo195144@yahoo.com
All the evergreens (Blue spruce, pine) are developing brown needles from inside near the trunk and out. Is it the weather or something else?