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treeseer

YOu are right; steep decline all right. That tree's roots seem to have been trashed, so pruning alone could not stimulate regrowth. It looks like it was a candidate for paclobutrazol and root invigoration. Now? That or replacement.

Apples and kumquats, Eric--different scenarios entirely.

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Guy Meilleur | Forensic Arborist | Better Tree Care

Ekka

Those eucs were planted there but were planted prior to the intersection being made a lot larger.

The tree's had a lot of their roots cut for the newer wider road and the turn left lanes ... resulting in the trees sitting in a little island.

Then some under story planting, footpaths etc. Common scene, can take 10 to 15 years for them to slowly decline and they're pruned back to the stump.

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Sean Freeman

I sad and repeated state of affairs across our state...great pics Eric wish I had such a good record of some of the trees near me, really well done for having the presence of mind to snap those in identical positions years apart

The roots are the key there and probably almost everywhere in our urban forest, as Guy alludes to there are measures proactive tree owners can take, cheaper too than the repeated pruning to death approach!

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Sean

Trees are poems that earth writes upon the sky,
We fell them down and turn them into paper,
That we may record our emptiness.
- Kahlil Gibran

treeseer

yes when pics like that tell a story it may not be so hard to persuade folks to take the proactive approach.

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Guy Meilleur | Forensic Arborist | Better Tree Care