In ( somewhat ) better solar day
tree are suffering . First , there are the pests ; among the most current are the emerald ash borer , the slew true pine beetle , and the wooly aldegid . Then there are the ravage of fires , hurricane , and other instinctive disasters ; it was dreadful to see the defoliation in the Caribbean to begin with this year ( though growing conditions there should further faster replacement than we ’d see in Buffalo ) . And then there are the always - ongoing threat of bad planting and bad maintenance .
One of only two trees on our actual property — we are surrounded by trees we do n’t own — was just cut down last week , the last in a series of must - do pre - winter job . A big sugar maple , it had been de-escalate over the past five old age , and now place a serious threat to neighboring structures . We think it ’s many decades former , but are n’t certain of the exact age . During garden duty tour , visitors have always been surprised to be look such a expectant Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree in an urban courtyard garden ; it grew directly against an even older Victorian posture house .
In (somewhat) better days
tree diagram replacement has been a grown affair in Buffalo since a 2006 freak October blizzard that many called Arborgeddon , and now my friends are losing their ash tree . But I do n’t think I ’ll replace this one — it was not a very generous spot for a mature tree ever , and I have enough social organization from the largish stump that remains , not to mention the wall behind it . I ’m certain I can figure something out and make this piece of work . In any sheath , after having get a line what it took to get the affair down , I ’d never want to have to risk pass water anyone go through that again . fence were sawn apart and heavy machinery made a clay pit out of a nicely planted shade bed . The possibility of people losing king and cable avail was heighten .
A really honest-to-god mulberry fig nearby ( wintertime shot )
As much as I bonk an urban canopy , tree diagram in densely built areas like mine are never trouble - innocent . Still , they hang in . A 320 - twelvemonth - old American sycamore is surviving just a few engine block away . It ’s currently battle a bout of anthracnose , but it survived the burning of Buffalo in 1812 , so I have high Bob Hope .
A really old sycamore nearby (winter shot)
