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Transplant Shock in American Fork, UT: Why New Trees Stall

A tree planted last spring that has not grown, has small pale leaves, and colored up in August is not necessarily a bad tree. It is a tree...

Root Plate Failure in Layton, UT: Why Trees Uproot in Wet Soil

The trees that come over whole in a fall storm are rarely the dead ones. They are healthy trees in full leaf, standing in ground that was saturated...

Tree Topping in Bountiful, UT: What It Does Inside the Trunk

Every fall we get asked to cut a shade tree down to stubs, usually because it has grown taller than the homeowner expected and a storm is on...

Needle Cast in Ogden, UT Spruce: Why Inner Needles Turn Purple and Drop

By September a spruce with this problem looks like a set of green pom-poms on bare sticks. The current year's needles are still on the branch tips, everything...

Early Leaf Drop in Murray, UT: Why Trees Shed Leaves in August

Raking leaves in August feels wrong, and homeowners usually assume the tree is dying. Most of the time it is doing the opposite. Early leaf drop is a...

Cytospora Canker in Holladay, UT Spruce: Why Lower Branches Die First

A Colorado blue spruce that has been in the yard for twenty years starts losing its bottom branches. The needles on one limb go purple-brown and drop, the...

Codominant Stems in Orem, UT: Why Trees Split at the Trunk

August storms off the lake do not usually take whole trees down. What they take is half a tree, split straight down the middle, leaving a raw vertical...

Girdling Roots in Lehi, UT: Why a Tree Trunk Has No Flare

Walk up to a healthy tree and the trunk widens at the bottom, spreading into a buttress where it meets the ground. That widening is the root flare,...

Fire Blight in Provo, UT: Why Branch Tips Blacken and Curl

A pear or crabapple that looked healthy in May can have blackened shoot tips by the end of June. Each one bends into a tight hook, like the...

Borer Damage in Draper, UT Trees: Why Bark Splits and Crowns Thin

A tree that thinned at the top last summer and looks worse this July is telling you something specific. Crown dieback that starts at the highest branches and...

Transplant Shock in American Fork, UT: Why New Trees Stall

Root Plate Failure in Layton, UT: Why Trees Uproot in Wet Soil

Tree Topping in Bountiful, UT: What It Does Inside the Trunk

Needle Cast in Ogden, UT Spruce: Why Inner Needles Turn Purple and Drop

Early Leaf Drop in Murray, UT: Why Trees Shed Leaves in August

Cytospora Canker in Holladay, UT Spruce: Why Lower Branches Die First

Codominant Stems in Orem, UT: Why Trees Split at the Trunk

Girdling Roots in Lehi, UT: Why a Tree Trunk Has No Flare

Fire Blight in Provo, UT: Why Branch Tips Blacken and Curl

Borer Damage in Draper, UT Trees: Why Bark Splits and Crowns Thin

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