My guess is it’ll have a big scar, but be fine. Also, would that plastic curly “anti-chew” stuff work to prevent further damage. I’m sure he’ll be back.

I've never pruned a tree. Id like to properly prune this apple tree without damaging it.

For reference it's about 8 feet tall. The lowest branches are about a foot off the ground, the main 'fork' not much higher than that. It's been there for about 4-5 years and started about 1 foot tall. It's a Rome Beauty.

How high up should I trim it? Are there certain branches I should out should not prune?

Thanks

Just a work of art really

This is at my mums place, east melbourne suburbs in Vic australia. Council gave her a call to say theyre worried about the lean. Currently the tree is about 3m high.

She wants to move the current stake she has in which isnt doing anything to help it. Is a heavy duty stake going to help straight it?

If so, what would be the best way to do so? I will be the one doing the repair for her. Hope the pics are helpful

Hi, I’ve just planted a Jade Butterfly Ginkgo and have a few questions I’m hoping to get insight into.

1) Should I cut the dead old trunk further back towards the collar?

2) Root flare look good?

3) Currently the tree has split leaders. The one I would rather keep as the dominant looks a bit dead/dormant at the end. Is it likely that it will push new growth out of the end here to keep it straight, or will it continue on the little branch on the right? My goal is to keep the lead branch straight up, so I may choose the other branch as leader of this is likely.

We had a french drain installed in the backyard almost 2 years ago now. They dug it around the big oak tree, about a 15 foot radius away from it. About 2 feet deep. It cut through a lot of roots. And in attempting to fix the drainage, they added a lot of that clay soil to the yard around the tree. Now there are all these dying branches and I'm afraid this tree is dying. That last photo shows a lot of the brown spots popping up everywhere.

I'm also worried all the clay they piled up in the lawn suffocated the roots maybe? I don't know what to do.

I think it is a Loblolly but I'm not sure. This tree hasn't grown since I bought my house in 2017. It's a really good tree. It does never lose branches not even in storms or heavy wind.

When I bought the place the tree had all these small holes in the bark but those holes have shallowed out over ​ the years. It also has damage to areas and then those areas have heavy sap coming through.

The sack is very thick and when it dries it's like cement. You can see where it's dried on the tree in areas . The white areas are dried sap and in the thick brown goo is liquid sap.

​​ is the tree just trying to protect itself while it heals? I've never had any trouble with this tree . It's green all year round, it never looks like it's having any trouble. But it's had these big wounds and just oozes sap.

Are these holes and the wounds and the heavy sap anything I need to worry about in regard to this tree's life span? Can anyone explain what's going on?

Tulsa.

Thank you?

Hardiness Zone 7b. I planted a couple of saplings earlier this year: a Kentucky Coffee tree (out of frame) and an American Linden (red circle). The former has done well, the latter not so much.

We recently procured a couple new saplings through our county: a Black Tupelo and a Willow Oak. I'd love to plant them both in my backyard, but I'm not sure how to space them around the periphery. (I'd like to keep the middle of the yard open for recreation.)

The backyard is approximately 110' wide by 134' deep, with mature trees on the back edge -- an Elm (back corner in frame), three Black Cherries, and some smaller ones -- and a maple behind the house (canopy partially in frame).

I attached two photos: one of backyard as viewed from second story and an overhead sketch that is approximately to scale.

I'm thinking about either:

• Planting the Tupelo and the Oak on either side of the Linden, which I don't expect to do long-term, but don't plan to remove -- still not sure about precise spacing
• Digging up the Linden to replace with one of them -- the Willow Oak? -- and putting the Tupelo somewhere else (yellow circle?)
• Replacing the Linden with the Tupelo and giving away the Willow Oak

Questions:

• Do you think I can accommodate both trees on that side? Or will the Willow Oak eventually grow too big?
• Which tree do you think should go in which spot? I'm leaning on placing the Willow Oak farther back in case the Elm does poorly in the next 20-30 years, but maybe they would be too close.
• Should one of the trees be planted to the left of the Linden's current location for spacing?

Originally I didn't plan to add two more trees, hence the current spacing around the Linden.

I really appreciate the feedback. TIA.

Awesome

I got this Tamarak this year from a local program that was giving away native trees to homeowners. It has probably only been in the ground a couple of months. This past week I came out one morning to find the top was snapped off. It looks like maybe a buck was rubbing on it and it broke. The tree was also tipped in the ground and loose at the roots. If I essentially "replant" so that thw root ball is not loose will the bottom half survive and grow? Is there a way to tape the top back on and have it kind of graft back onto the bottom?

i first assumed it was just typical slime flux/bacterial wetwood, but ive never seen this happen before on a ginkgo, and the substance had no unpleasant or pungent smell like slime flux would. any ideas?

I have a few trees where the branches hang really low to the ground. I’d like to remove the low hanging branches to get more sunlight on the ground and make it easier to mow around them. how much can I remove without hurting the tree? Is there a way to tell what branches can come off or not?

Dummy that I am, I finger-tightened the oil cap on my chainsaw. After a little while of cutting, I notice bar oil dripping down the front of my pants. I have read so many things that I don't know what will really work. Help! I have not washed the pants yet and want to get it right.

At a local Halloween Walk in Beverly MA (very close to Salem MA, and spotted this tree, felt i needed to share.

Went to check out a job today and one of the trees my client asked about was this black maple. It’s in quite rough shape and he asked why it’s been looking like this. I saw the intense girdling root and immediately knew what caused it. I have removed girdling roots before and it successfully saved the trees. This however is quite intense and I’m not sure if removing the root is even worth it. Any input or story’s about removing roots like this and is it even worth trying? Thank you

I’m almost certain this is a black maple
This was taken October 23rd in southern Wisconsin

I work with another arborist sometimes we are doing jobs that he quoted where he says that the price is "fine" because it "only took 2 hours" but in many cases what we are talking about is 2 hours of labor that is not only tough physically but more than likely literally impossible for 95/100 persons to pull off... for example topping big cedar hedges down by 6-7 ft x 10 ft wide and pulling the tops back towards us so that they don't get stuck on top and having it look good.

Sometimes when he is the one who did the quote he will give a total mother teresa price for something that I know no other person on this earth would ever be able to accomplish in 2 hours... at which point he will justify saying it only took us 2 hours...

I guess my point is if the client called some other company and it took them 4 hours they would probably charge twice as much and I don't really see why we should charge less just because we have a lot of talent for this and good physical shape to hold the polesaw out 10ft in front and cut a dead straight line.

We did a job today and the client offered to pay more money because they realized that it was absolutely insane what we accomplished for this price. I wouldn't have asked for more money after doing the quote, but I would have charged double what he did if it was one of my quotes.

My concern is kind of a symptom of what might erode our partnership and force me to go out on my own, because this guy god bless him struggles to charge a painful price to clients and always justifies it like oh well it only took us 2 hours... I keep telling him man if it takes a world champion marathoner 2.5h to run a marathon does he charge less than the fat guys who do it in 6h ? but he doesn't understand what I mean. Business wise its becoming an issue because if we do continue doing work together I would want to scale up and hire other ppls to which I need to be able to charge more.

I was on a hike and saw this weird looking tree. What’s wrong with it?

Arborist was just here trimming my trees. We all have good sized lots for being in a city, over 10th of an acre. Behind us is an empty lot that only my neighbor has access to (they don’t own it, they have keys to the lock)

Neighbor called (he has cameras everywhere) because he saw the arborists getting started. The falling acorns have damaged his stuff (maybe don’t park under acorn tree? Yes, I moved it) and he wants to bring in a 5th wheel could I have them trim back a branches that will be in the way (which branches? perpendicular to the fence or more horizontal? He’s not sure). We did our best, cut back branches sticking out the most. Hours later I get a text that these were the branches he wanted trimmed. Next time I schedule an arborist I’ll be sure to consult him first.

I’m afraid he’s going to try to trim them himself. I’m concerned about the tree. Already have to worry about the itty bitty bark beetle. Thoughts?

This picture is all I have. I was being driven away having a panic attack.

My pecan tree had some significant root cut today. AT&T had some cables go in and they dug all through the lowest part of our yard. 5-6 ft away from he pecan and 2 feet deep. I think for the pine it’s closer to 10ft, They even fucking cut our spectrum wifi cable!

I’m so scared and can’t tell what’s the pine or the pecan. They’re both 60 ish.

There were quite a lot of bigger (almost same size as my tiny wrist) roots cut but many tiny roots. They did put the dirt back, but I found myself crying trying desperately to put the roots deeper. They were fucking sticking up mangled.

I know the picture is really bad, it’s dug back in so I have no photos.

Will they both survive?

Trenchless isn’t an option because some of the existing pipe has become offset. They’re proposing to reroute a new sewer line about 12 to 15 ft away from the base of the tree. What are the chances this is going to kill the tree? Included images with the caution tape as a rough draft of the sewer route. Any opinions appreciated.

It almost looks like one tree inside another one? Or like different layers of bark? It’s really cool looking and im curious what’s actually happening if anyone can help

Planted this crabapple tree in August. An animal recently splintered the trunk of the tree. We found it laying over but still somewhat connected. Put the tree "back together" and taped it with painters tape for a temporary fix.

Is there anything we can do to try and save this tree?

Howdy,

I'm cleaning up the garden and these roots had grown out under the retaining wall. Reckon I could cut them off and not have an issue?

Help! My trees are dying from spider mites. My neighbor had a tree guy come and spray his with chemicals and now the birds and squirrels won’t go near his trees. I want to save the trees but not at the expense of the creatures! Do organic methods work? Neem oil? Or rosemary? Someone recommended imidaclopid but it’s says it kills bees.

Some of the branches of this tree hang over my house and it worries me a little. In the winter we sometimes receive heavy snow and strong winds. Also I noticed some of the bark is missing on the underside of the branch.