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service berry issues If you look at the ground cover by the plant near the house I notice some strange things going on with the leaf of some of the larger ground plants. I would say sometype of natural or in this case un-natural varigation is going on the leaves, all most like some nutrient or...

green ash The insect exit holes appear to be from the ash/lilac borer, and I don't beleive the Bayer product will do any good on that one. A permethrin type prodoct needs to be sprayed on the trunk. I beleive it would be to late to spray where your located. This brings up a whole new subject...

Tree to deep Del hit the issue right on the head--tree to deep and I think the tree is reacting to this with dieback of the bark and perhaps roots for being to deep-------------We need to start a Plant on the surface movement, no holes needed I hate digging holes- Bare root placed on top of...

purple leaf thing If it has black knot fungus then it's a Subert Chokecherry or Canadian Red Cherry (samething) so in other words a common chokecherry with purple leaves-I think they found them orginally in North Dakota way back and then pushed them on the market. You can prune out the growth...

Prune or not to prune Post a few jpg's of the trees so we can visualize what your talking about

ash problem If I didn't know better it looks like a black ash and if that's the case there seems to be decline of some sort throughout the plains area and maybe in other areas. A decline is a condition that causes the tree to slow die out and they don't what the is causing it. The one photo...

tree wound dressing No wound dressing on the market today is reccomended for application. Keep the tree healthy is about all you can do. And let the tree wall off the injury which will take many years if at all.

Elm limb I would take the limb off just below the red line. Pruning the tree when it's young the tree can wall off the injury much eaiser and therefore less decay will be the result.

Blue spruce problems If it is Cystopora canker the only thing you can do is prune out the branches that are infected. Rhizospheara will have black spots/fruit bodies from the underside of the needles coming out of stomates. If it doesn't have the black fruit coming out then it's not...

Oh What to do? Nothing-just keep up what your doing and let the tree do the rest-

Peeling bark Could you please post a jpg or two of the problem

Leaning hackberry Mike-Please post some photo's of the tree it will help us evaluate the tree much better and therefore give you a much better reccomendation.

dead tree I suppose you could scratch the bark and see if it has any green? But if it hasn't leafed out and the buds aren't swelled up by now down in Texas then I would say it's a goner and there's nothing you can do but pulled it out of the ground and replace it. It would be interesting to the...

old norway's You will need to get a certified arborist out there and inspect the trees for internal rot etc and then act on their recommendations, of which deadwooding could be in those recommendations along with removal.

Oak roots Unless your dealing with oak wilt you shouldn't have any problems. They do it all the time in a forest situation in selecting individual trees to harvest and leaving the rest of the stand.

fall He should spend some time in chruch this season--a very luky dude

water Along with the other replys why not use some products like Wilt Proof on the foilage. Just spray it on and it will help with mositure lost during the winter and early spring-

branch issues Don't you just love included bark. People bring it home from the nursery. Single stem one leader yuyou just can't go wrong with that--

Tree iissue on the Cherry The Tree has Gumosis - bacterial issue on the tree. Time to take it down-the tree doesn't know it's dead yet

mulch Open center pruning on apples perhaps