I'm in a bit of trouble.......
I have about 5 very large red gums in my backyard.
I recently just tried to get council approval to take down one of the trees
simply because its on the fence line and I want to replaced the fence.
I got knocked back by the council... they gave me pictures of how to build a
new fence around the tree.... Fair enough I accepted it.....

This was about 3 weeks ago.....
Last week I noticed that one of my other red gums was looking like it was
dying.... all the leave have gone brown and its looking kinda dead...

Then this weekend I looked up again and another red gum is looking the
same......

A few months ago there was a small red gum... maybe about 1.5 metres
tall...I though must have just sprouted from one of the seeds that the tree
drops... I don't want any more gum trees I'm happy with what I have... so
anyway I chopped it down... about 20cm from the ground.... then left it....
about a month afte rthat it had some sprouts coming up from it so I got a
bit of poison and sprayed it.....

Now what I don't know is.... could this have caused my big gum trees to
die??? This small one is about half way between the sick looking trees....
I never would have thought it could do any harm...

Now I'm worried that the council is going to think that I killed these
trees!!!! I don't know what to do.... could it be possible? Even on
those sprouts that had been poisoned... they were still light green... I
just don't see how this could have happened.....

Is it possible I could have some kind of bugs in the trees?? At the bottom
of one of them I tok a little bit of bark off and there appeared to be some
small white ants... so I want to get the pest guys out to get rid of
that....
But I'm just really worried right now.... not sure what to do..... if these
trees die, the council is going to be pointing fingers! About the only
good thing is that I didn't try to get approval to chop these sick trees
down.... I've tried to do the right thing! Coudl I still get fined even
if it was an accident?? Can they prove how the tree died??

Thanks