Catching up on things that happened this Summer: We took delivery of our new tree, a Ginkgo, which looks puny compared to the late, lamented European Ash, which fell prey to the emerald ash borer last year. After years of not having a bird feeder, we finally worked out that something up high in the […]
The treatment for the Emerald Ash borers in our beautiful tree out front failed, and the tree doctor suggested pulling the plug. Incredibly, Mary-Jo phoned me just after I’d started a dog walk to say the tree guys were there to cut it down, and by the time I got back 20 minutes later it […]
Alas, our European Ash will soon be no more. Emerald Ash borers are eating it away from the inside. We’ve been treating it with Treeazin for about three years, but it seems it was too little, too late. Once about a third of the tree’s crown is dead, it doesn’t come back, so it’s going […]
