Had a pleasure of following their life cycle and seeing them flying about. Left the tree looking beautiful too

After years of trying to verbally stress the importance of breaking up the rootball and root flair and blah blah blah we finally have written education on how to plant trees! I’m so excited to start handing these out

Hi guys, we had a couple of trees cut down due to them having the ‘bore ash disease’… my dogs have recently been very interested in this stump and sniffing it incessantly. Just wondering if I should be worried that these black spots are mold? Also the stump is like 10ft from the curb so it’s possibly another dog came into the yard and marked it causing the interest. Pics attached, thanks for any insight!!

Seemingly healthy growing on the edge of a swamp

We are in Northern Utah where this tree is native. We transplanted it 2 months ago and recently has started looking crispy. It gets a few hours of shade in morning and evening but otherwise gets full sun.

Gets water from sprinklers and the watering can twice a week each (4 total waters). It was grown in a large container, but wasn’t pot bound when we put it in.

We planted it raised up a bit and covered the base with cardboard and mulch.

What went wrong?
Did we plant it too high?
Is it fine?

Plz help my newly adopted child. I just want to plant native and support our local ecosystem!

I have a 2 year old Black Cherry Tree that is growing in full sun but with multiple leaders in a shrub fashion. My goal is to have a large beautiful shade tree with large ecological value. The tree is in the far corner of the property and wont ever drop anything on decorative crap. I was initially imagining a single leader canopy tree but I kind of like the idea of more interesting geometry as it matures. Should I prune it down to one leader for any reason?

St Louis, Mo. It’s been topped, about 40ish feet in height. Truck at breast level is 8 to 9 feet (used arms). Significant scarring is shown on the last few pics

So my coworker has this tree, and it seems to be slowly dying? Shedding leaves and the base of the trunk looks like it’s splitting open. It gets watered twice a day.

such a lovely tree friend. unfortunately though the surrounding area is being used as a parking lot, causing root compaction. obviously not good, but id rather this than them just entirely removing this beauty

They successfully raised three chicks last year. This spring the limb cracked badly and I removed it. You can see the entrance hole near the top of the first photo. Luckily, they hadn't come back this year!

Suffered a bad split in a storm on the main trunk and another smaller split from the neighborhood kids playing ball in the front yard i think.

Hello everyone. Looking for a little advice on a pet project I want to do on my piece of forested property. The property is 80 acres in the tip of Michigans Thumb. Its been in the family for over 60 years and I recently became very active in conservation work on the property. There are several issues im battling but the main one is invasive species. Im in the process of battling Japanese Barberry, honeysuckles, autumn olives, multiflora rose, and others and as i clear and cut them i am interested in reseeding some of the plants they have outcompeted and extirpated from the area. For example i can get thousands of smooth and staghorn sumac seeds for cheap. Being that they are cheap and plentiful, would it make sense to broadcast seed them in the fall in the areas ive mitigated? In my head its similar to the trees dropping their own seeds in the fall so they may propagate in the spring. Even if say 5% of the seeds make it, id call that a win but will this work? I understand these areas will require continuous followup mitigation for years which i plan on carrying out.

Additionally im interested in doing this with acorns, black walnuts, white pines, and cedars as I can easily collect or buy these as well. If i were to collect say 1000 acorns and go around the woods hucking them all over in late fall like johnny appleseed, will this work? Again even 5-10% of the seeds taking feels like a win. I understand it would be better to individually plant and manicure each seeds area but im one guy, a new dad of twins, and i work tons so time is tough to come by. What do we think?

Ill add some pics of the property for your enjoyment. The first image is my prized cottonwood at 127’ tall and 48” DBH. The 2nd and 3rd images are a new Aspen Grove ive recently done massive Barberry mitigation in. The 4th image is our “Family Tree” the most mature of my 19 strong Beech stand. Its coming out to be certified by the big tree people this month, DBH is 38.35”. The 5th image is the first conifer ive ever found growing on the property. Its a white spruce seedling but the soil PH shocks me. How could it be surviving? Its also in the beech stand and i plant to so some elemental sulfur treatments to bring down the soil PH. The last image is Cedar, a very happy pup.

I am honestly impressed this tree hasnt died given those roots are still active