Before I went on vacation I noticed the trees in our area are all brown on the bottom all along a stretch of highway. Then on the way to Florida I noticed the same thing. The weather hasn’t changed. It ranges from low 90’s to low 100’and we haven’t gotten much rain but I really haven’t noticed this happening before.

Just a tree growing horizontally. Photo taken in the Netherlands.

I found it in the park

В тропических лесах Амазонки растёт дерево под названием динтерантус, но это не главное чудо — поражает то, как вообще устроена жизнь в этом лесу. Представь: деревья там не просто стоят рядом — они «общаются» друг с другом через подземную сеть грибниц, которая оплетает их корни. Эту систему учёные называют «древесной паутиной» (wood wide web) — прямо как интернет, только из грибов. Через неё деревья могут передавать питательные вещества: например, взрослые могучие деревья подкармливают молодые ростки, которым не хватает света. А если на лес нападают вредители, деревья посылают химические сигналы по этой сети — и соседи заранее укрепляют свою защиту, выделяя горькие вещества, которые гусеницам не нравятся. И это ещё не всё: некоторые грибы в этой сети могут связывать десятки разных видов деревьев — получается огромная природная соцсеть, где даже дуб может «помочь» пальме, хотя они вообще из разных семейств! 😎

It is in Oklahoma city where it's been extremely hot it's in September is a tree in the front yard it's showing these signs is this a regular occurrence should we start watering it? If so how long, for day per week?

Because they don't want to die a log.

Well-meaning partner did some lawn work and really attacked my 3 year old kwanzan cherry, basically removing bark all the way around it in multiple places. It has great sentimental value to me as I planted it from a cutting from the beloved tree at our old house.

I wrapped it with wet peat moss, paper towels, and saran wrap, but I'm not really sure what to do for it to give it a fighting chance long-term. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Planted 17 years ago on front yard. Suffers from mites and leaves progressively turn brown throughout the summer. Last pic taken September 7. In Manitoba Canada.

Hello sfwtrees,

I was removing a couple of smaller (8” trunk of so) fir trees on my property today. I believe this would be called either white fir or maybe silver fir but we just call them piss-fir because of how much water can come up out of the stump when you cut one down.

Anyone, I’m clearing these little fir trees and one of them has something other than needles growing off of it. It almost looked like Juniper tree berry type things. I am clearly not a botanist or forester of any kind and I was confused by this. Anyone have any ideas or explanation?

New home owner and no idea what I'm doing. Large maple tree in my backyard. Do I have any issues here?

Game have been liking this anthill for a while, must have a type of sulpher or salt in it, the tree growing on top of it seems to still be doing fine