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Not a tree Just a big overgrown Manhattan Euonymus

You lost 2 years growth on a 50 year tree Cut back all the dead wood now to live tissue, monitor soil moisture during the summer(use your finger, don't guess) You have plenty of years left to get some new growth. Pay an arborist or nurseryman(someone who grows trees), not a landscaper, to...

Check second photo background It looks like you are talking about an inch caliper transplant that has thick turf growing right up around the trunk...a recipe for disaster for the trees. Why aren't there mulch areas around the base to prevent mower injury, stray weed wacker damage, excess lawn...

Nothing wrong Southern Magnolia only keep 2 years leaves on. They are dropping 2010 leaves now that the 2012 new leaves are expanding. Low temperature injury on those branches from previous years...prune them out. The lichens grow on tree trunks, rocks, etc. High humidity, sometimes from...

Attention all zebra hunters That's the dreaded skidsteer bucket bruise. The landscaper or nursery let the tree rock backwards and bang against the bucket when they were moving it off the delivery truck...more than once. Let it compartmentalize on its own...10 years from now it will just be a...

David Thompson Harford County Maryland, north of Baltimore http://www.foxboroughnursery.com

it looks like 6 years worth of callous growth under that peeling bark. Don't go looking for zebras.

Ran the antique 1980 white top model 61 Improved my summer view and took out 2 24" tulip poplars that finally gave up the ghost from Hurricane Isabel in September 03. Isn't it nice to be able to Paul Bunyan them instead of being a bologna slicer...Timber!

Doc Shigo says... Wounds don't heal, they compartmentalize and the new cambium eventually covers, just like a pruning cut on an older tree. Think of it as a "bruise" like smacking your leg with a hammer and under the skin dies. Eventually the skin wears away. I would guess one "old bruise"...

I hate to bog down, big chips rule My old antique 61 I run a 16" bar to buck firewood. 357xp w/24" bar is too much bar and chain drag...16" is best If you need the 24" length take the advice and jump to the 372xp

leave it be time heals all wounds not sunscald mechanical damage from nursery digging, transport, or installation

hows your squirrell population? They clip ends to build their "nests"

no Like most conifers the needles/foliage doesn't remain attached and green forever. Think white pines later this season, or hollies right now. Increase the mulch area at the base to keep the mower and weed wacker away. The tips are where brown or yellow foliage will indicate a problem.

Has your class been introduced to the resistograph tool. That would allow you to examine the extent of decay coming down the trunk column. Minor MP1" pruning on the canopy Radial Mulching of the CRZ with an air spade followed with a mulch 4" deep under the CRZ will be the most beneficial to...

open center or vase open center or vase pruning is used on orchard peach and nectarines and is a special technique started when the tree is young this type isn't used how you are describing and would lead to a lion tail effect on the tree, the “gutting-out” of a tree by removing a large number...

Here are the different options that I offer 1. Grind down the stump (# of " ) below grade. The stump hole will be backfilled with the stump chips and a mound would be left on site unless otherwise stated on the work order. 2. Grind down (# of) prominent surface roots 4”- 6” below grade...

30" Red Oak, slight bottle butt White rot throughout roots. A little wind toppled this one over. Our dry summers have really played havoc on the marginal trees. We have seen a half a dozen topple over in the past few weeks.

decay in the butt of the tree http://www.leesburgtoday.com/articles/2007/11/08/news/public_safety/9942afall110807.txt

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48" spade Oaks like spring digging or when deep dormant, otherwise less success rate