treevet

Yeah, Len, In my small town we have lost every (maybe 2 or 3 hundred) mature sugar maples in the approx last 5 to 10 years in the tree lawns alone. They just cannot exist in this climate with global warming ( yea, I said it). l00 foot 3' trunk dia gorgeous specimens. Just north of here they are doing fine. Do you give up on them. I ve been planting a drought tolerant cultivar and therefore the client and I are investing in an experiment together. Sweetgums with no balls, disease and drought tolerant sycamores, compact growth cultivars to fit tight spaces, etc, etc. Designer trees if you will. It is fun shopping the nurseries for trees these days. How about that cherry that comes out green and turns the deepest purple and holds it all summer. It is usually the reverse..