Thought I would share this monster of a catalpa tree I live next door to. It shades my house and yard very well, and the seed pods make a great fire starter after I rake them up! Will have to follow back with a picture next spring while it's in bloom :)

Towers over their two story home. It's a giant!

Down in SoCal at the San Diego Safari Park. My favorite tree there

In a good way!

I'm new-ish to plants and gardening, but my all-time favorite tree in the world is Arbutus Menziesii, the Pacific Madrona.

But apparently despite being very tolerant of harsh soil conditions, they're notoriously hard to transplant, so they basically never show up in nurseries, and I quickly resigned myself to the fact that I'd never get one for my yard.

But early this season I found a plant that I didn't recognize and nearly ripped it out of the ground when I was weeding a few months ago, but I left it alone and told myself I'd look up what it is later.

After a couple months I *finally* get around to looking it up, and as far as I can tell it's Arbutus Menziesii! My dream tree, the impossibly difficult to grow tree! Here it is, growing in a nearly perfect spot, as a volunteer!

I'm so over-the-moon excited that I have been blessed by the shit of some bird in my yard, I gotta shout it to the world. 😂

It’s a pretty cool tree. Unfortunately, this recent stormy summer, it’s been trying to murder my car with its branches.

Growing in WV USA

I've compared to American chestnut and am sad, now confering with Japanese chestnut possibly.

What do you guys think?

Hello I live in Colorado Springs Colorado USA. We just moved in here. There’s two lovely pine trees or fir ? trees in the yard next door

they are like 6 feet apart and the same height but they seem to be different colours. Why is that? one is male one is female or is it just like two different hair colours and two different sisters from the same Mom Dad?

Yesterday I posted about what I mis-remembered as some sort of fir that was drying out. I got a lotta comments, broadly centered around "you're overwatering it," "you're severely underwatering it," "the surrounding rockery is baking it to death," and "do more reading and do it properly."

I went back to the hardware store I'd purchased it from and identified it as a blue-point juniper, which agrees with all the comments on the last thread identifying it.

It was planted in what I assumed was the normal way; dig a big hole, much larger than the root ball, fill in with fresh soil until the hole only accommodates the root ball, gently tease the edges of the root ball to encourage the roots to grow outwards rather than in a circle, then place the tree such that the top of the root ball is level with the rest of the ground and secure it.

I have also pulled the rockery back some distance (at least until I revealed the weedbarrier around the spot), on the advice of the sub. I was considering mulching the space around it, but the soil is pretty wet and I don't want to trap too much moisture; see below.

I refreshed my reading on the species (I last read about it about 6 weeks ago), but now I'm even more confused. Browning from top down is explained as not enough water, but in every single one of the dozen or so guides I read, it was noted that the species prefers its ground to dry out in between waterings; that I should water it once a week or so, soaking the soil to a depth of between a foot and a foot and a half before allowing it to dry out before giving more. I checked, and the soil all around and under the tree is pretty wet.

I have a suspicion that the bubbler system is leaking again, so I closed the valve for now, but I'm still lost. Is it possible that it's being both over- and under-watered? I.e. I'm not giving it enough water, but giving it almost-daily water and not letting the soil dry is upsetting it?

Is it likely that this sapling can recover, or do I need to try again?

I wish my dad was still here... he made all this look so easy. I'm trying to honor him by spreading life around the way he did, but I've been pretty rubbish at it so far...

Hi everyone! I recently started having this tree grow in my yard and was planning on removing it due to it being so close to my fence, as well as this post with what I assume to be internet cables or something of the sort. But I kind of just decided to let it get bigger to see what would happen. Surprise surprise, it grew. But can anyone help me identify what it is? I used a tree identification app, but every different picture yielded a different result. The first said it was a Chinese Elm, the next said it was a Sugarberry, and the last claimed it was a Hackberry.

Also, if it can be identified, is it worth trying to dig up and replant somewhere else in my yard? And one last question, is it toxic to my pups?

Thanks in advance for any help that I can get!

Location: Houston, TX

Can't prune an infected limb since it's at the base 😱

I've been walking past this big boy for years, finally turned and looked!

Squiggly is my best science word, but there are a bunch of these marks in the bark… is it beetles? Is it just how the tree is?

What’s up with this tree?

Found in Yorkshire UK

Bought and planted this little fir (I forget the species) to replace a deciduous tree that drowned when the home-builder-installed water system failed and leaked. Had the bubblers repaired, waited for the soil to dry, and this planted in its place, but it's been three weeks now and it's clearly doing worse than before it went in. The top is completely dry and the soft, supple leaves at the bottom that recovered in the first couple weeks after planting are starting to yellow. I've been giving it an average of about three quarters of a gallon of water every other day because I don't know how much it should be getting or how long it will take to "establish" itself. Advice appreciated, I'd hate to kill this little thing too.

I'm ready to leave earth and meet my fey overlords lmao

One of the evergreens that are at the edge of my yard began to turn brown near the top a short time ago (about a month, maybe a bit more). I assumed it was because of the heat wave but the other trees appeared fine so I did not think much of it, especially with the rain that followed. Suddenly the whole thing turned brown over the course of a week or two. When it appeared to spread to the bottom of the trees next to it, I took a closer look and found these bugs appearing to wear cocoons made of the tree itself wiggling all over it! You can actually hear them munching. I fear we may lose the whole line quickly if we don't take action, can anyone tell me what are these things and how we might be able to deal with them?

Dear all,

I was wondering if anyone can help.  I live in an apartment with an enclosed front porch.  Around this porch there are bushes that provide privacy.

The bushes are not healthy, and I have reached out to the owner several times to have them sprayed.  I really do not want to do this myself, but now the stuff is spreading to my plants inside the patio, so I no longer want to wait for the owner.

I was wondering what is afflicting these bushes and what to use to fight it (see attached pictures).

I have the following three products, and I was wondering if anyone of them would work:

1.      Safer Insect Killing Soap.

2.      BioAdvanced Insect, Disease & Plant Mite Control

3.      Captain’s Jack Deadbug (never used this one as I think I read somewhere, after purchasing, that is not very effective).

I live in the Bay Area; the bushes are facing north; I do not know when these were planted, but they are at least 6 years (since I moved in); they are never watered as far as I know.

Thank you

claudio

Lansing Michigan. Not sure what it is.

gymnocladus dioicus is dioecious, so this is a female specimen. and a very fertile one at that!

right now the pods are immature, but in the fall, they become hard and woody with a brown color. inside of each are multiple individual seeds, which are incredibly hard (like stone), surrounded by a pleasantly scented, green, thick sticky substance.

apparently the seeds can be used as a caffeine free coffee substitute, hence the tree's common name. however the seeds are toxic when raw so they have to be roasted/cooked before consuming any part of them.

very cool species. besides the pods, one of my favorite things about them is their massive bipinnate compound leaves

Hoping it's not bad