Pine trees or shrubry In landscape look dead

[JerryK]

We had a bad winterburn up here in Northern Lower Michigan this last winter. The pines/firs that were effected in this area were damaged some on the south south/east side. The amount of 'burn' is mostly related to how much the tree is stressed before the long winter. The sun tries to dry out the needles and this moisture must be replaced by the root system. If the ground is frozen, then the tree must make do with what moisture it has stored internally. Although the browned needles are toast, the branch may bounce back. On smaller trees, sometimes you loose the top. Just wack it off about a half inch above a healthy branch, then bend and hold one of these healthy branches vertical to make a new leader. A wrap of cheap plastic marking tape works great to keep it vertical for awhile until it takes off on it's own. Hopefully the following winters we will not have as much frost, and maybe go back to getting warm ups once and awhile to give the trees a break.... It was nasty last winter...

 

[tcreeley]

Birds + mulberries = one heck of a mess everywhere

They are planted in the back field to make a tree/fence line. There is already a cherry growing on the line above them that produces the sweetest dark cherries every few years. Bird are messy- somehow they manage to hit the front of our trailer despite the lack of a perch!

 

[ruffdog]

They are planted in the back field to make a tree/fence line. There is already a cherry growing on the line above them that produces the sweetest dark cherries every few years. Bird are messy- somehow they manage to hit the front of our trailer despite the lack of a perch!

Same with the clothes in the line. I swear I can hear the birds laughing!

 

[tcreeley]

I noticed that a grove of plums (they spread) we planted some 18 years ago have died back to 1/2. Whole trees dead. Someone gave them to us and we stuck them in the ground. Wrong zone- a return to the weather of the 1980,90's this past winter. The plums were always small. We'd get them off the ground. Way high up! Bird fodder!