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Back on your old phone or is that from a video game? Obviously glad no one was killed though. Lightning be scary.

I’m pretty sure EAB is around here...just not widespread yet. I’ve seen some totally dead ash trees here and in Concord.

It probably would've been any other winter, but yeah...97-98.

I have some pygmy bamboo if you want a rhizome. lol That stuff makes an aggressive lush ground cover 6-8” high.

Hrm. Maybe you weren't watering long/deep enough then? Were they very root bound in the pot?

I had a bunch of plants with yellowing leaves so I said F it and spread some fresh chicken poop around them. We green now. I'll just be saving the kale for the birds.

Still sound like a fungal root rot to me, but hard to tell. Got pics? I doubt the layer of sand is much of an issue. Most shrubs gets down into the sandy layer anyway. I think intense sun can burn the leaves, but if the whole thing is wilting and dying back is sounds like overwatering to me. Have you fertilized them? Do you have them mulched with wood chips? That can keep them more consistently moist, but new chips can rob them of nutrients as they initially compost down.

If I ever had a daughter my name of choice was Neve...that is until Lisa found out the meaning. Now it's nixed.

It's like when you look out in the deep extended at H5 anomalies and weak trough signals show up as neutral or slightly AN heights.

Well said ^^^^^^^^^^ 100% agree

First I saw this. Congrats on the la nina.

If it's due to injury and not fungal then you may need another treatment. A lot of trees heal over and recover. I know the tree company Gene uses has used a bark sealment around damaged areas of his horsechestnut tree.

You can try some mud packs on the cankers. That’s what they do to keep american chestnut trees with blight alive. https://www.acf.org/ma-ri/the-project/mudpacking-cankers/ There’s more pics and vids of the process online. I’d assume you’d have a better success rate than that with chestnuts.

Definitely looks a little weird during the dormant season without snowcover (April and Nov/Dec). And yeah, it’s not an overnight fix. I’d probably just overseed before the first snow. Come spring it’s ready to go once the glacier is gone. I’d stay away from planting zoysia via seed too.

I think I went through zoysia farm. Looks like they had trouble with their harvest and are out for the season. But here’s their instructions... https://www1.zoysiafarms.com/plantzoy.jsp I pretty much put mine in bare spots and didn’t have to do a large area. Now that it’s established I can take my own plugs from that if I want. They’d probably take off even faster than the ones I had shipped. This was fall 16 to early fall 18. It’s pretty much full coverage this summer.

I'll have to find the site where I got mine from.

I don't think you're much different than my location temp wise. Frequent snowcover will help it as well.I'd probably be more worried about zoysia in a frost/torch pocket like CON than up where I am.You could buy a sheet or two of plugs and just let them go. I will say my plugs in the back that I planted in loosened, bare soil took off a lot faster than the ones that I planted in the hard pack front that was already full of grass and weeds.

Yeah Lava. You may want to try the zoysia. Maybe try a little area of it to see how it does in your area but it grows fine here. You don’t radiate well either which helps. The zoysia won’t care about sun and dryness once it starts getting established and it will choke out all of the weeds since it almost acts like a weed itself. You’ll just have to deal with a dormant lawn in the beginning of May and Oct/Nov but it should thrive during the summer when you want it green the most. It’s really no fuss. It just takes awhile to fill in...like a few years if you space the plugs a foot apart.

You're right. Just reread Will's post.

I think the goal is to make them use up all of the oxygen. A gap would give them air exchange. How’s it working?

I bust balls with you, but jesus h. That SW slope must just bake. You probably need irrigation to get the look you want...either that or plant a few trees for extra shade. But I’m sure you don’t want to block the views.

Red thread starting to go wild here.

I'm leaning Northeastern Pine Sawyer for mine. I think that's the same thing Bob mentioned based on pics I see. At least it isn't the ALB.

Here’s another one. Guy at work thought it’d be funny to tack this sucker up on the wall to scare everyone. I see they’re invasive, but what do they seriously threaten? Pines?

Yup. I think that's it. Never heard of them.