Bigleaf is still around, dessication hit it again and it looked like some tips died back throughout the year. But, I have convinced the manager to lightly fertilize in the spring and increase the deep soaks in the summer, as opposed to increasing shallow watering. It appears there is not much...
Tree is important to site, so obviously I don't want to remove it. But as it is a species not suited to our hot dry summers and winters with colder temps than experienced in its native range, it seems to me like the increased transpiration and lack of available water could be counteracted by...
I like it...another trip back there sure won't be a hassle at this time of the year :/:. I'd like to take some more pics and investigate the fungi a little further. There is a lombardy whose neighbour (another lombo) I removed in the spring which appears to have the same fungal issues. Perhaps...
Cmon, Paul...get out your hand lens man...:)
I need better pics of the fungi for sure. Good point about the irrigation, though. No vascular staining was noted on the tissue I removed in the spring, and the dieback seems pretty general rather than local for it to be verticillium. There are no...
I work for the manager at this resort. This bigleaf maple has problems.
Site History/notes/observations:
Many trees surrounding the maple have been removed in the last 10 years, due to pine beetle, or windthrow.
The tree was not formerly mulched, the mulch has been added in the last...
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