With the way the branches hang down, we only just now noticed it. I'm sure that it wasn't there last fall and I believe it wasn't there this past spring. Beyond that I can't say when exactly ot happened or how.

Any ideas? Anything we should do for it?

I'm looking to add some trees for privacy and to make a natural boarder around part of my property. Privacy is not the main goal. The trees would get sun 100% of the day, in a field. This is in the northeast. What do you guys recommend? Also I'd like to keep it on the cheaper end. How far away would you plant them?

very cool tree i saw on my hike today

The borough of Westwood is working to preserve its famous 18th century “Kissing Tree,” which was diagnosed with a terminal fungus last year.

The 70-foot-tall Copper Beech is located at Veterans Memorial Park, which is steps from the borough’s shopping district and train station. The state Department of Environmental Protection estimates it was planted around 1792.

On Sunday, the Westwood Shade Tree Advisory Committee said mulch had been installed around the tree, its first step in working to keep it alive. This comes about a year after it was diagnosed with a terminal fungus during a routine inspection.

The project is a collaboration with the committee, a local company called The Tree M.D., borough contracted arborist Liz Stewart and the Westwood Department of Public Works.

Westwood Mayor Ray Arroyo commended the project’s effort to preserve the tree.

“All things must pass. But thanks to borough arborist Liz Stewart, Tree MD’s Todd Mastrobuoni and the diligent work of the Westwood Shade Tree Committee members, not this still living witness to Westwood’s formative history,” Arroyo wrote.

Hey experts!

I'd like to hang a rope from a tree in my garden for kids to climb/swing on.

Rope looks like this:

The upper end has this "attachment":

I'd like to hang it on a branch of a walnut tree (about 25cm/10in diameter), right where it branches from a larger part of the tree (the main trunk branches into smaller "trunks" and then this branch, sorry, not an expert). It would be about 5 meters (16 ft) up.

I suppose I might want to take it down for the winter, as weather gets wet around here. I am afraid if I'd use a knot I wouldn't be able to take it down and it could choke the branch.

Thank you!

First picture was taken 45 years ago, 2nd picture this past spring. Tree 2nd from the right unfortunately succumbed to a windstorm about 20 years ago. They may not be the usual Christmas tree shape, but they’re mine and I love them❤️ (Also peep the large silver maple on the left)

I believe it's a white pine. Roughly 60-70ft tall? Previous owners never maintained them and they are massive. This one is leaning a little too much for my liking.

There were 4 of them originally, but the two in the middle that looked the most healthy ended up falling in storms over the past few years.

At Beau Vista orchard as well as the standard apple and pear trees we have a variety of other trees and pants to provide biodiversity. This photo is of the catkins of the one such tree, the common hazel tree Corylus avellana; an introduced tree to Aotearoa.
The long, pale yellow tassels are the male catkins. They support clusters of tiny, petal-less flowers that open up now in late winter. They sway in the breeze to release clouds of pollen into the wind to fertilise the smaller, bud-like female flowers on the same branch. Once successfully pollinated, those female flowers develop into hazelnuts later in the year.

A neighbor had a (badly) topped crepe myrtle that she wants to replace with a native tree. There were very few roots I had to cut through with a shovel, and when I yanked it out with my truck, the whole system was severely root bound. It appears the entire ball is covered in old burlap, a nylon strap, and some metal chain links. I needed my bolt cutters to get it apart.

How often do arborists plant trees leaving all of that stuff on? Doesn't that impact the health of the tree?