redwood trees

QuestionMy wife and I are considering putting an offer in on a house that has 6 redwood trees in the backyard. My concern is that the trees are planted in a row quite tightly spaced and are exactly 8 ft from t

girdlers or cutting worms on pecan trees

QuestionMy pecan tree is a wild tree about 90 feet tall. We deep root fertilize this tree every other year and do our best to keep the web worms off. Is there any way to get rid of the girdlers? I pick up the limbs

Thuja Green Giants

QuestionMy husband and I recently purchased Thuja Green Giants. We are curious about their root systems. We have cinderblock fencing all the way around ( standard for our neighboorhood) we bought this tree to add as

Corkscrew willow tree

QuestionI live near Houston Texas and I have a corksrew willow tree.. It didnt get ANY leaves on it this year.. Is it dead? I noticed today that there is like a brownish colored dirt looking pile around the bottom o

pruning weeping mulberry

QuestionGood morning: We have a weeping mulberry tree and I have seen some people prune these trees right back to the ball at the base of the branches. Our tree has a lot of dead branches near the base - Ive

felled hollow oak

QuestionWe just had a large oak tree felled as after all attempts by our arborist to save it was to no avail. The circumference was over 6 feet and we found the center to be hollow...a radius of about 2 feet.

trees

QuestionDo you know a species of tree that grows the fastest and can be used to produce ETHANOL fuel? AnswerSome fast-growing trees make excellent energy crops, since they grow back repeatedly after being cut off c

Leaf curl Orange tree

QuestionI have a navel orange tree which has developed leaf curl. I am wondering if spraying it with vegetable oil would fix this. Please advise. Lots of oranges on it but not ripe yet. Hope I wont

Bald Cypress Trees

QuestionAm planning to plant 10 tall bald cypress trees in 4 of water near Stuttgart,AR. Plan to put 16 root ball in a 1/4 thick 18 diameter casing made of paper that will unravel in a year submer

Brown goo coming from my live oak tree

Question Brown stuff tree I live in the coastal Florida panhandle and have gorgeous live oak trees by my deck. One of them is oozing a brown poo looking stuff and I am concerned that it is sick? The de

spruce tree root systems

QuestionCan the roots from Norway & Blue spruce cause damage to asphalt drives. We have these trees planted between drives in our complex. The trees range from 20 to 35 feet in height. The drives a

Tabebuia Planting Removal of Leaves

QuestionAfter buying or transplanting large, 4-6 caliper, balled and burlapped Tabebuia trees from a nursery in South Florida, zone 10A-11, we have always stripped the leaves at time of planting on the caraiba, yell

Do I need to cut down these trees?

QuestionTrees close to garage Hickory with hollow ce QUESTION: We have two healthy trees that are of concern due to their proximity to a garage dug into the slope of a hill. The walls are poured

Old Oak Tree stump

QuestionIn 2011 I had to have a heavily decaded 350 year old Oak Tree feld as it was decreed dangerous. Since then I have carved the 1.5 meter high stump into a childrens castle. Unfortunately furing thi

Mahogany roots

QuestionTree roots visible Tree roots out QUESTION: Dear Jim, Theres a West Indies Mahogany which roots are, pretty noticeably, sticking out of the soil, in the surface (pics attached). Its been getti

Fat Albert Spruce

QuestionMy spruce is about 8 years old. Now the center is losing almost all of its needles. The very top is almost naked. Do I need to fertlize or lime this tree. Please help fast.....was planted the year my mother

moss

QuestionI HAVE GREEN MOSS AND WHITISH GREEN STUFF GROWING ON THE BRANCHES ON MY WEEPRIN CHERRY TREE? AnswerThese sound like lichens. Lichens are an example of a symbiotic relationship between algae and certain fung

Zones

QuestionYour site is very interesting, but I keep seeing references to zones with no explanation as to how to determine what zone im in. Am i missing that somehow????? Thanks Pat

Move mature tree

QuestionMr. Parker. . I wish to move a ~20 ft. ponderosa about 10-12 to make room for a garage. I live at 7,500 ft in a high mountain setting. The soil is deep and good(? loamy). Other pinons and ponderosa ar

willow tree dead or alive !

QuestionHi i am in the Uk, We have moved to a house that has a very old and very dead little willow tree about 4ft tall , it was all bent out of shape so i hoisted it up a bit and pruned off some of the dead branch