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Oct. 12—The 70-foot-tall blue spruce tree had defined a corner of our yard in Mentor for a half-century, but its lower branches were bare the past few years, and it clearly was ending its long life.
The bracket fungus Fistulina hepatica is one of many that cause heart rot.. Heart rot is caused by fungi entering the trunk of the tree through wounds in the bark.These wounds are areas of the tree where bare wood is exposed and usually, a result of improper pruning, fire damage, dead branches, insects, or even animal damage.
Hedge laid using pleaching. Pleaching or plashing is a technique of interweaving living and dead branches through a hedge creating a fence, hedge or lattices. [1] Trees are planted in lines, and the branches are woven together to strengthen and fill any weak spots until the hedge thickens. [2]
Young trees should be pruned enough to control the direction of the plants growth and to correct any form of weakness along the branch. [19] The tree should be pruned at its desired height. [19] When pruning choose roughly five to seven main branches and prune the rest. [19] Older trees need to be pruned more delicately – they are more ...
Tree stump, about 37 years after falling. After a tree has been cut and has fallen, the stump or tree stump is usually a small remaining portion of the trunk with the roots still in the ground. Stumps may show the age-defining rings of a tree. The study of these rings is known as dendrochronology. Stump sculpture by German artist Eberhard Bosslet
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Native plant gardens can look dead over the summer, but there are things you can do to tend to the dried-out vegetation.
The blue spruce is the state tree of Colorado. [67] It officially became Colorado's state tree on 7 March 1939 when House Joint Resolution 7 was enacted by the legislature. Previously a vote of the state's school children was taken on Arbor Day in 1892 expressing their preference for the blue spruce as the state tree. [68]