Dang.
One of the trees in my yard, a beautiful twenty-foot blue spruce, did something very weird this fall. It lost it's top.
See the the very top? Where there should be a thick healthy green solitary spike?
And do you see what is there INSTEAD? This poor dead brown pathetic shriveled thing?
My poor, poor tree.
I wonder what it will do? The dead center stalk is surrounded by a ring of other branches that appear to be growing straight up in what I suppose is an attempt to replace the dead branch.
But there's FIVE branches there. Which one will actually take over as the top spike branch? I wonder how the tree will decide? WILL the tree decide? Or will I end up with a spruce tree growing upwards in five separate shoots?
All you arborists out there ...... what do you think?
2 comments:
Hi Julia, Love your blog. I have been reading your posts for awhile. Your tree is diseased and it will spread to other spruce trees around it. You need to get a tree doctor involved. I can't remember the name exactly (sjoggy fog) but I think it is some type of spore thingy majig.
Bobbie
Hi Julia, I'm not an arborist, but it looks to me like this tree has two tops, which would be a fantastic solution to your Angel vs. Star predicament! :)
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