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The distressed tree is gone
May. 3rd, 2016 12:36 pmTwo years ago I wrote about a street tree that was dead, and how the city told us it wasn't dead it was distressed, and also we can't plant a tree in that spot because it is a ditch! (Never mind that they planted it there themselves.)
Well, they were right about the difference between dead and distressed - sometime around late July 2014, that tree actually did leaf out. But in 2015 it never leafed out at all, and by this winter the bark was spalling off. After a year in distress, it was truly dead.
So this winter when the street tree program applications came out, we applied for one, and paid the fee. And apparently when the request comes as part of a batch of 100 trees to install all over town, the public works people don't fuss about ditches. Our application was approved, our check was cashed, and this morning the distressed/dead tree was removed and its stump was ground. The new tree should be installed by the end of the week. Hopefully it will thrive a bit better than the old one.
Well, they were right about the difference between dead and distressed - sometime around late July 2014, that tree actually did leaf out. But in 2015 it never leafed out at all, and by this winter the bark was spalling off. After a year in distress, it was truly dead.
So this winter when the street tree program applications came out, we applied for one, and paid the fee. And apparently when the request comes as part of a batch of 100 trees to install all over town, the public works people don't fuss about ditches. Our application was approved, our check was cashed, and this morning the distressed/dead tree was removed and its stump was ground. The new tree should be installed by the end of the week. Hopefully it will thrive a bit better than the old one.
