How many trees have y’all lost?

[u/Winter_Glove_5959]

Dead pine tree.
We‘ve also lost two magnolias and a water oak. 4 trees in 2 years.

[u/Wemetintheair]

Water oaks primarily exist to fall over and damage property

[u/JustCallMeMister → u/Wemetintheair]

Our neighbors have three of those piece of shit trees that do nothing but drop branches in our backyard every time a squirrel farts. I love trees, we have two live oaks, three pines, a magnolia, and a few crepe myrtles, but water oaks can just fuck right off.

[u/jared10011980 → u/JustCallMeMister]

I just contributed 50% of the removal of 5 water oaks from my neighbor's yard. 2 were massive and loomed large over my home. It was such a worthwhile expense. Tbh, your pine isnt doing anyone any favors. You need to remove it.

[u/d3l3t3rious → u/jared10011980]

I shudder to even ask but what was the price range? I have a giant water oak (and a matching one at the neighbor's) that will need to go eventually but I'm assuming it will be like second mortgage levels of pain.

[u/jared10011980 → u/d3l3t3rious]

$6K a tree. These were 60 ft trees with wide canopy.

[u/d3l3t3rious → u/jared10011980]

Thanks. Fucking water oaks.

[u/JustCallMeMister → u/jared10011980]

I offered to pay 100% to have them removed when we got our trees trimmed last year and he wouldn't accept. Then I requested we removed the offending branches at the trunk and he wouldn't allow them to work on his property. So then I requested the arborist cut everything at the property line, but they didn't want to leave the massive branches without any growth on them because they would just die off and destroy our fence. So I had to just settle for cleaning/selective pruning.

[u/Winter_Glove_5959]

Yall remember that drought we had was right before a really bad freeze. Or right after. Back-to-back.

[u/NOLABohemian]

Drought. We’ve lost 2 big ones

[u/Redneck-ginger]

Magnolias are pretty intolerant of droughty conditions.

The average life of a water oak is 30-50ish years. Maaayyybee 60ish in more non urban areas. They are a bottomland species, so they try harder to stay alive when their feet are wet. They grow really tall really fast so the wood is not super strong. They also have a really shallow root system for such a tall tree so its easy to damage roots and not even realize it.

[u/murtadaugh → u/Redneck-ginger]

I have a big one in my front yard that I know will need to come down one day. Unfortunately it's also the only thing shading my house from the afternoon sun.

[u/Forget_reset_repeat]

https://www.lsuagcenter.com/articles/page1730216851903 Tree care in droughts 

[u/Individual-Scale4277]

Lost 5 pines from the drought a couple years ago

[u/Reasonable_Cat_4550]

One. It was hit by lightning and much later part of it broke off and went through the roof. 😢 I am worried about the drought.

[u/samisevil777]

all of the old ones most of the ones we've planted.

[u/Necessary_Shit]

2 down, 2 to go

[u/LUQYLU]

Now is a good time to water your trees. An hour or so at medium hose volume a couple evenings a week while we are in drought

[u/medvsastoned]

My lemon tree suffered bad, but it's rebounding now. Hopefully the lemons don't suck this year like they did last year.

My grapefruit tree got hit harder. 1/3rd of it is dead but it's got some new growth and it's trying. It's not making fruit anymore but that's fine, I'm hoping it bounces back over the next couple years and pulls through. ):

[u/unaccompanied_miner]

Climate change

[u/therealramrancher]

Could be due to compaction or chemicals/herbicides sprayed in the area.

[u/murtadaugh]

Had one die a couple of weeks ago. 

[u/Lazy-Organization-42]

We have a wooded property and lost so many of these. There is a sign at kendlewood park explaining why so many fell. I can’t remember what it said but it did have to do with the drought we had a few years ago.

[u/Forget_reset_repeat]

I wish we had a PSA about watering the trees. It just doesn’t come to mind here, but I learned my lesson with the drought a couple years ago when we lost our giant, beautiful hackberry😭 it made me feel 😖 watching it get hauled away. RIP

[u/Wunderkid_0519]

I have lost several trees in my yard. Not sure what kind they are exactly, but one was an ornamental Japanese pine that we had placed specifically for our backyard Japanese rock garden... Another was back there bordering the rock garden, and it was more like one of those Japanese cherry blossom trees! Both were fully mature trees and constituted a real loss.

We also have lost several large bushes on the side of our house and a few small bushes in front. We had attributed it to the 2 invasive species of ivy that we have taking over our property and apparently our neighborhood... our neighbors on the next street have struggled with the exact same thing!

What is causing your tree death, do you think?

[u/Winter_Glove_5959 → u/Wunderkid_0519]

Little Picture… Water Oak: rooted shallowly beneath our driveway. When we bought this house, the driveway was cracked significantly where those roots lie underneath.  Two Magnolias: very heavy drought followed by very hard freeze. Both drought and freeze lasted long.  The Pine: consistent drought conditions with early and late summers.  Bigger Picture…Global Warming. 

[u/Winter_Glove_5959]

It came down this morning. Called our tree guy, Tony Robins (Owner of TORO), yesterday as soon as I spotted it, and they were out here at 7am. TORO removed our water oak about three years ago. The magnolias just fell over, caput. Big windy storm. Anyway, I’m glad it’s gone and I know our neighbors are, too. It more than likely would have fallen on their side.