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Can I get an ID on this? Is this big toothed aspen? I know older trees can get the rippled bark, but one of these looks kinda young for that. It seems to be flowering/putting out a lot of seed now. Tree 1...branches/leaves Tree 1...bough is the tree on the far left Tree 2...parent tree is in the back. Related youngin’ in the front Tree 2...parent. Lots of flowering up top? Tree 2...zoomed flowering at crown

scarlet tanager. Did it hit your window?

I remember quite the snow game blowout 10/18/09 down there.

2nd looks like a pignut hickory?

Well that's the problem. I've had the damage for years, but this is the first warm season where I've noticed crown dieback. It probably doesn't help that my bird feeders (suet) are right next to that tree.

Those do look like petunias though. And the leaves don't look like morning glories.

Petunias are tropical. They're not going to survive a winter. If you have one hanging nearby you could lose a branch or two and it could root into the ground.

What do I do with this crabapple? Looks like sapsucker lunch. Is there a worthwhile way to treat it or if it dies, it dies?

Yeah I know. Just making it official. It’s been about 10 for us.

Thanks weenies for the congrats in the other thread. I tend to do everything late in life. Hopefully dying is one of them too.

I see a lot of pissed off gypsies someday in the future. https://www.courier-journal.com/story/life/home-garden/2019/07/12/kentucky-trees-sudden-oak-death-coming/1613549001/

The previous owners here let everything get out of control and I've only recently made an effort to cut it back and get everything in check. I had a couple of yews that were like 30ft tall in front of the house. No thanks. Anyone know the best time to cut a rhody way back? I'm guessing in March before it starts putting out new growth?

Mine are out of control. I'm thinking of cutting it way back to almost nothing. Rhodies and forsythia too.

https://radicalmycology.com/educational-tools/other-fungi/mycorrhizal-fungi-101/ https://www.bio-organics.com/pages/specific-plants-trees-endo-mycorrhizae-and-ecto-mycorrhizae Lots of products out there on Amazon, but I'm still researching reviews.

Maybe try an endomycorrhizal inoculant treatment? I've thought about doing that with my trees since they're planted out in the lawn and not in the forest where there's abundant beneficial fungi. I have a bunch of trees that would benefit from ectomyccorhizal ones as well. (chestnuts, tulip poplar, hickory, willow, etc).

I’m on the waiting list with them for the darling 58 if/when it gets FDA approval. I’m growing natural mother trees here now.

Long, but good, read on the transgenic chestnuts. https://psmag.com/ideas/most-controversial-tree-in-the-world-gmo-genetic-engineering

I'd just be wary about introducing something not native that could damage more down the line than just EABs.

And yeah...more hope against EAB? https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-23216-6

They're coming.

Not yet...been wiping them out with the pruners and loppers.

lol Did he graduate?

I’m pretty sure the transgenic ones are going to get FDA approved in the next 2 years. All they changed was 1 gene. It doesn’t even kill the blight...it just allows the tree to be able to handle the acid it produces. Studies so far show that it doesn’t change anything with beneficial forest fungus, bee pollination, leaf litter decomposition, etc. Frog tadpoles have a higher survival rate in water with the chestnut leaf litter versus those from leaves from other trees too. Makes you wonder how much of the frog decline is due to that too. Anyway, they’re coming. Just gotta save the elm, ash, and hemlock now.

65/58 Warm but not warm enough here. DIT would be angry having to tie his B.U.M. Equipment sweatshirt around his waist so he can throw it on when he gets that chilled weenie by the fire.

Pic with a quarter for reference. Thank you Di! The smaller ones are mostly dark now and the larger mostly green.