GardenBanter.co.uk - View Single Post - Oh, no, can this tree be saved??? (photo links)

13-08-2004, 11:06 AM

(Kristen) expounded:

I took some pictures for people to see the damage. I left them full
size, so you'll have to scroll down, but I cropped as much extraneous
material from the photo as I could to keep file size down. Some have
notations added in the photo.

The real damage isn't as obvious. The lightning 'boils' the sap of
the tree. It will look like it's going to make it for awhile, but
most likely at least that leader will die back to the base. I had a
pine in my backyard that looked just like that....it 'burst' when hit,
but went right back together again, within a year it was dead. Same
with the pine down around the corner, but that one took two years to
die.
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Ann, Gardening in zone 6a
Just south of Boston, MA
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