New Italian Cypress drying out

QuestionWe just planted 7 Italian Cypress in our backyard in Kingman, AZ. Its pretty hot here now. The cypresses are so dry, you touch them and they crinkle. Theyre almost turning white. I felt the soil, and its moi

replanting conifers

Questionwe recently dug up some conifers from a friends garden and replanted them in our own.however after three weeks they have turned almost completly brown.can we save them? Answerdepends on where you live. in t

Transplanting Leland Cypress Trees

QuestionHi Jim, Thanking you in advance for taking the time to answer my question. I am writing to you from Northern Virginia. I have a 2 year old Leland Cypress Tree, approximately 7 feet tall which is currently pl

Norwegian pine and ants

QuestionHi, My tree guy tells me that I should cut down my 2 beautiful Norwegian pines because the ants are eating them. These trees are at least 50 feet tall, about 20 in diameter, all bark, with leaves and new gro

planting redwoods

Questioni brought back redwood seeds from california and i want to see if i can grow one. i live in massachusetts so i dont even know if they will grow here. but if they do,any kind of helpful hints you might be abl

Bald Cyprus pests

QuestionI have a bald cyprus that is about 12 to 15 feet tall that has started showing signs of pest infestation. The limbs have a web that wraps the leaves. There are small black bugs of some kind in th

Thuja Green Giant Life Expectancy

QuestionI recently read the Q&A on the life expectancy of Leyland Cypress (~15-20 yrs due to susceptibility to disease). What is the life expectancy of the Thuja Green Giant? FYI - I live in central North Car

Pruning pine type trees

QuestionMy aunt has two blue pine type trees which she had hoped would grow up into column-like shapes. Instead they are too wide now with off shoots as branches. Can she cut these outer branches and if

pine tree worm

QuestionWe live Southeast Ohio. We have a blue spruce that is being killed by worms. The are starting from the bottom branches and moving up. The use the dead needles to make little hanging nests a

blue spruce infestation

QuestionWe live in MD, and have a Blue Spruce about 7 feet tall. It has clumps of brown pine cone shaped things hanging all over--they look likw dead pine needles mixed with spider webs--they are attached by w

Bald Cyprus

QuestionWe live west of Chicago and had a bad drought last summer. The tree seemed fine. Also a worker cut one of the larger roots pushing up our driveway. Anyway, this year part of the tree (10%) browned and droppe

Leland Cypress - Brown & Dying

QuestionI have read the other posts regarding LCyps turning brown,however, I need to be sure about my newly planted trees. We planted 30 LCs at the border of our property. They are approx. 5 tall. Soon after w

Skyrocket Juniper/zone 4/Omaha

QuestionI have had Skyrocket Junipers for about 7 years and within the last two weeks about 5 of them look like they are dying. At first it was just one and now the others. 6 of them are planted in a row

Blue Point Juniper trees and low growers dying, Heat or too much fertilizer?

QuestionI have an aquaitance who has just planted two Blue point junipers and a few low growing junipers. For the first three months they did well. Now they have pretty much died down to nothing. He said all the bra

leyland cypress turning brown

QuestionWe have several leyland cypress. Four of them, next to each other, are getting brown branches. We had bag worms but sprayed and they havent come back. These branches are not in one place on the t

killing a conifer

Questionwould it be possible to kill a conifer without cutting it down ? AnswerThe easiest way is to take an axe and cut a 1 inch slice of the bark all the way around the tree trunk --this will girdle the tree and

italian cypress trees roots

QuestionI live in Southern California. Recently I drained the water from my swimming pool onto the lawn next to the pool. A day later, I noticed a hole in the fiberglass pool. The repair man said it was due to

old cypress

QuestionHi! Besides the old cypress, we need to make ten f00t deep excavation and then we need to build a concrete wall tangently on the circle of roots. Because of the lack of space, it would be good if we could 損l

Redwood bark damage, Oregon

QuestionI am buying a house with a huge, beautiful redwood about 15 from the side of the house. At its base, it is about 15 in circumference. Near the bottom there is about a 2 stretch where the bark was damaged - i

Leyland Cyprus Tree Root System

QuestionHi There, We have three leyland cyprus tree close to our house. They are in the height range of 15-20 feet. We are planning on moving them to a different location. IS this possible and feasible