I have a Japanese maple that has been on my yard since idk when. I bought the house from the original owner built in the 60s. I don’t have a pic but it looks like the tree was a sapling transplanted onto a stump? Is this bondai? Idk.

I want to trim it so it keeps its look, I do like it, but I also don’t want it going over my driveway like it is. It is inconvenient getting out of my car and it cuts into the walkable path to my door.

Any good advice for trimming this do it so it still looks good? I don’t have experience and don’t want to just chop it up and ruin it but I don’t want to take trimmers and just ruin the look or kill the tree either. I commented on it before and my dad while visiting, [I love him, he meant well, don’t flame him lol] thought he was helpin me out while I was at work and trimmed it in a straight line and it looked pretty bad, so I want to avoid me just functionally doing the same thing.

Idk anything about plants. I hate gardening. I was told this could be worth $3000 or more. Is this true? Should I hire someone to trim it for me to be safe?

Any advice is greatly appreciated!

My mother pruned a tree and enlisted me to move the branches to the front. The pruning was for more sun in the garden.

Saw holes like this on a dying tree. Im in Queens, NY. I'm seeing alot of dying trees in my areas. Which sucks because im right mext to forest park. Im afraid that theres some pest wiping out all the trees nearby.

Please let me know if I am in the wrong place

I would really appreciate any help with trying to understand what could be causing only some of my small trees to die?/change colour

As you can see they are all next to each other receiving the same amount of water, light, soil etc, however some singular trees have started to dry out and change colours, anyone know what may be causing this?

Thank you!

What’s happening with this please help

Hi, i planted a sweet cherry tree and it’s on it’s second summer and it is already getting too tall. By next summer it will be in the power lines. I have done a lot of reading but can’t figure out the best way to prune it for height reduction safely. Could I cut the central lead? There is a cluster of branches about 12 inches off the ground, another about 5.5 up (pictured) and then the next cluster is way at the top about 18 feet up.

I planted two bald this spring. One has grown much more and looks very green. The other one doesn’t seem to be growing and is browning on the interior. Still ok or replace?

FINAL UPDATE: Guys, I KNOW it isn’t going to make any money. I posted as a way to help my husband understand that, despite what the pruners said, he isn’t going to sell a multi-ton log to someone for a thousand dollars. MY plan was to keep some of it for projects and cut the rest for firewood. I spoke to a homesteader friend of mine who is going to bring out his mobile saw tomorrow and do just that. We get rid of a 50 foot half-rotted tree, he gets a bunch of firewood for this winter. 🤝

Disclaimer: I know next to nothing about processing trees or lumber.

We recently moved in and had a huge dead oak in the back. It was about 150ish years old. It obviously needed taken down due to the sprawling branches being supremely rotted. I’d like to use some of it personally, but other than that, I don’t know who would want it or how much we should ask for it, if anything. We’re in Ohio if that helps. Thanks!

Edit: I’ve shown my husband this thread, and you’ve helped me convince him he isn’t going to sell a multi-ton log on Facebook marketplace for thousands. I think we’re going to cut some so I can have wood for a couple of projects I want to do, and then use the rest for firewood. We have some folks who use wood for heating their home, so it will have a home eventually.

The tree was planted when the house was built in 1955, so it’s now over 70 years old. It’s the largest tree in the neighborhood, and I really love this tree!

My neighbors would like me to take it down because the needles and pollen are messy. I don't want to be a bad neighbor, but the pollen and needles have never bothered me, and I would hate to cut down such a beautiful tree simply because it can be messy.

I'm not quite sure what to do.

It definitely needs to be trimmed away from house but does it need to be removed all together? Where to find exactly how to trim

Recovering ash - SE PA, zone 6. Saw this growing on one of the trunks - good, bad, or indifferent?

Talk to me about this oak. It seems healthy to me but a neighbor mentioned concern it was dying but I don’t see signs of that. The leaves do drop before other oaks in the neighborhood lose their leaves but I’m hoping it’s just because it’s older and not because it’s dying. We had an arborist check it out and said rot is possible but nothing immediately needs to be done.

It’s giant, and I’m quite attached to it. That said it’s close to our house and we get harsh MA snowy winters. We don’t want it to fall down on us or our neighbors. Please reassure me it looks healthy?

I've been chipping away at this stump with a chainsaw. I was wondering if it would be safe to grind out the stump or keep at it with the chainsaw and use mulch to decompose the stump. (Any other tips would be appreciated.) The other tree is within 3ft of the previous so I'm unsure on taking it down to the ground would cause serious damage to its living counterpart.

Pale foliage and now brown tips are appearing. It hasn’t grown very well for the past year or so. My neighbors on either side have nice looking oaks with deep green foliage.

Noticed that this ginkgo and a few near it are not doing well. Most of the leaves are extremely small and don't seem as though theyre fully unfurled if that makes sense. I would assume this is some sign of stress, but does anybody know what specifically could be causing these weird small leaves?

Syracuse NY

I start off with saying , she's amazing. It was her idea to go out and " rescue people" because dad always has a chainsaw in the truck and she loves helping people.

She helped drag one branch in a gentle mist 20.ft to the roadside Then comes the gold.

"Dad is this really what you do everyday"

Me : yeah most days

" Dad I love you because this sucks"

Well kid that's why dad sounds like bubble wrap and grunts when he gets out of bed

Our Maple has a major wound from what is unknown. I've had different arborist tell me it can just be cabled to support the one major limb and it should hold up. Another arborist said it's a goner and needs to be taken out. It's a hazard because of its close proximity to structures. The canopy looks healthy, but there's about an eight inch deep "bowl" in the inclusion (crotch) area. I'd love any thought on her. She's old...probably 50-60 yrs. It makes me so sad to think she's a goner.

I’m dropping my kid off at Fordham in New York City to start college and there are mature elm trees everywhere around here. It is incredible. I haven’t seen this many since I was a kid in Chicago and they were chopping them all down due to Dutch Elm disease.
Thought y’all would appreciate this.