acmpls
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I recently bought a house in Minneapolis that has a green ash (I think) in the front yard. I don't know how old the tree is but the trunk diameter is about 3 feet and the height is maybe 40 feet. The previous owners must have been amateur landscapers because they built a 1 foot tall circular concrete block wall about 9 feet in diameter around the tree. Then they filled in the area with dirt and planted about 10 hostas around the tree. The dirt measures 6-8 inches around the base of the tree. I think the wall was built 2 years ago and the tree looks very sick with several dead branches.
I've read several threads indicating that this is the exact wrong thing to do for a tree, but now that it's done, is there any way to save the tree? Can I remove the dirt from around the base of the tree but leave the hostas there? Or should I dig up all the hostas and remove the all the dirt from around the base of the tree? Or is it too late to do anything?
I've read several threads indicating that this is the exact wrong thing to do for a tree, but now that it's done, is there any way to save the tree? Can I remove the dirt from around the base of the tree but leave the hostas there? Or should I dig up all the hostas and remove the all the dirt from around the base of the tree? Or is it too late to do anything?