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We hike near a creek in Morgan Hill, Ca and stop near this tree(s). They seem to be bonded. I googled and it says this is rare?

My wife noticed some damage to one of our crepe myrtle trees. She thinks the landscaper hit it with the trimmer, but I pointed out that there's nothing anywhere near that tree that needs trimming. I thought it could be bark peeling/shedding, which I know crepe myrtle trees do, but I'll readily admit it doesn't look right. But I also think it really, really doesn't make sense that sometime hit it with a weedwacker. The closest grass is five feet away.

Bush lupine (Lupinus arboreus) observes a flagged shore pine (Pinus contorta subsp. contorta) on a cliff in Santa Cruz County, California. The marker is from a few miles down the coast, I haven't found the one near this spot yet.

This tree could be old enough to have been a seedling during the great San Francisco Earthquake. Standing through monstrous storms, salt spray from giant waves, herbivory, grazing, construction, logging. What has this tree seen?

It may have watched teams of horses haul Douglas-fir and the last of the redwoods from the Santa Cruz mountains immediately behind it to rebuild San Francisco. A small lumber mill still operates nearby, now processing redwood and fire-scarred logs, a faint echo of an earlier time.

This tree could have watched the tanoaks on these same mountains felled and their bark peeled for leather - including tack for teams of horses hauling logs, boots for the loggers, and belts for city gentlemen. The oaks among the Doug-fir on the sunny slopes would have been felled for charcoal, for the wagons used for hauling, and for the docks built to move the logs to San Francisco. These same docks would also receive the last of the whaling ships that this tree may have seen steam offshore to search for an ever-shrinking number of whales for market.

Almost certainly it watched teams of surveyors, then engineers, then motorized shovels - powered by California's abundant petroleum - build the early portions of the famed Pacific Coast Highway (Highway 1), connecting Santa Cruz to Half Moon Bay. Perhaps our tree was still too small to cut down for firewood for a road crew's dinner. It watched the iceplant in the second image slowly creep over everything - iceplant planted by ambitious men to stabilize slopes for railroad tracks.

This tree - battered daily by wind and salt spray - has survived to see men peer through devices to look for whales, to survey for roads, and now for pictures on social media. If it survives 50 more years, what new wonders will it see?

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It's like 15' tall right now, living up in northern Michigan. I don't want to hurt it, my grandfather gave it to my son before he died. It's already survived one transplant. My FIL is having trouble cutting the grass around it. Any advice at all would be so appreciated.

This tree by the bus station was heavy with these pods. Can anyone please identify the tree and fruits, please?

sycamore tree seed ball core? Partially exploded? Platanus?

I don't understand

Searching "platanus flower"doesn't help

Searching "partially exploded platanus seed fluffy ball" doesn't help either

It looks like the special trees in the movie lorax

The angle of the light made this feature particularly noticeable and I wonder about its significance.

Planted this container redbud earlier this season and figure it’ll need this root pruned off at some point. Best time of year to do so? Should I simultaneously reduce the canopy to mitigate stress?

Also, perspective is kinda weird but the tree is 15 feet from the corner of house, which from what I gather is plenty of clearance for a redbud. The stake tie is plenty loose too, just looks very taut because the wooden stake itself is coincidentally crooked like that.

I went for a walk in Olympic National Forest and found some Marijuanas I thought you all would enjoy!

Very old Oak. Damn near engulfing the entire boulder at this point😂

Brookgreen Gardens

Last year I paid over $1000 to one of the big name arborist companies in my area to prune and cable a 40 year old 3-stem silver maple in my yard. Each of the 3 main stems is about 18” dbh. Personally I manage about 100 acres of woodlands so I know a bit about trees but I’m definitely not a climbing arborist.

Advice needed: Most of the pruning sites are producing numerous water spouts instead of healing over properly. Seems like maybe the pruning cuts weren’t done in the proper collar region?

The tree could be stressed anyway- it’s on the property line and my neighbor hires lawn care places that do “weed treatments” in the turfgrass on one side of the tree. Plus there’s a dryad’s saddle mushroom that fruits from a very old pruning cavity in one of the stems. But overall a healthy-appearing mature silver maple with a decade or so left before the mushroom rots the structural heartwood.

Do the water spouts mean that I should ask the original arborist company to come back and “correct” the original pruning cuts? Or is this just normal residential tree behavior?

I planted this tree in April and it’s getting yellow spots and dropping small branches/“leaves” should I be worried? I was told to mulch the base so I’m going to do that today. I’ve been watering it regularly and I don’t know why it’s doing this!? Any advice appreciated! TIA

Your welcome.

Just wanted to show off my new apples that I grew from seed! its 4 years old and amazingly it has fruited! very exited to see how my brand new verity of apple tastes!

I am getting them registered with Fruit ID as well. sadly wont find out the results until next feb :(

Curious how long she’ll hang on and she’ll recover at all? I know these won’t grow back together, more curious how well elm could grow a new leader and give it another go for a bit.

Notes - the tree is at least a couple hundred feet from any building, infrastructure, houses, where people would normally go, etc. Grows in the common area between houses in a neighborhood. Functions mainly as a nice tree to look and block out the view of the neighbors. As far as I know the split happened sometime in early June, but appears to have had quite the V shape going on. Sucks we’re going to lose it at some point. It was the first tree I planted when we moved here and was maybe a couple feet tall. Roughly it might be close to 30 ft tall-ish. The plus side is that this group of trees has a few that will probably benefit from the new light - I think they put a hit out on the elm. Forest turf war kind of stuff. Anyway, the plan is to let it fall and move on from there. The goal is to build that area into a forest/habitat area for wildlife and generally let nature do its thing. Circle of life, and bonus points for screening the neighbor. Though a part of me wants it to hang on, I’m sort of hoping it goes sooner so the other trees can get on with it. I also understand that when one or both sides fall, some of the surrounding trees will take damage from the body blows. Collateral foliage, if you will. Should be minor HP loss and overall the health bar should remain green. From memory, there’s a London plane tree, Austrian pine?, a couple white pine, eastern red cedar or two, burr oak x2, pin oak, and black oak.

Beautiful big ol' tree in a residential neighborhood. The internet tells me it's a Sitka Spruce. It is at least a meter and a half in diameter.

Just gorgeous.