What happens environmentally where there’s a ton of down trees?
Hey guys! Katie here - I live in Florida. Tough times over here lately. My area got hit by both of the hurricanes pretty bad and we lost a TON of trees. even a month later there’s down trees on the side of basically every road, and there’s so much other debris like huge branches that fell and such that are lining the roads. while i know eventually this stuff will decompose, there’s too much to really clean up and it’s just sitting there. the fact that there’s just SO much of it got me a bit curious - how does this affect our local environment? while down trees may be the least of some of our concerns after these horrible storms, many lost their homes and livelihoods, as a tree lover im curious how this affects our environment as well. as always, love the pod and glad to have a nice distraction from the world we live in 😵💫
Variegated fall leaves?
Hi, guys! Love the pod, as always. Here's my current question: why does it seem that trees with variegated leaves (I'm not sure that's the right term) don't have pretty fall foliage? There's a tree in my neighborhood that has beautiful green leaves with white outlines (I think it's a version of a Norway Maple) in the summer, but in the fall it just goes drab and brown. What gives?
Moving a tree
My parents have a lovely olive tree that they are probably going to remove. Is there a way to just pick up a tree and put it somewhere else? I really would prefer not to kill it and since we’re in Sonoma county (Mediterranean climate, which I learned on a Casey Clapp Tree Walk!), there are plenty of Olive orchards and nurseries. Thank you, still my comfort podcast and constant inspiration for botanical drawing - one day I’ll be brave enough to submit a Cone Club Contribution!
Pine bark beetles
Hello gents, first off thanks for the podcast, will try to remember to leave a review later! Slight backstory, father had a well manicured landscape with many trees. He passed a couple years ago, and my mom by no fault of her own is having some of those trees taken down. Two are long leaf pines, one is a loblolly I believe, loblolly was struck by lightning and still living but posed a possible danger. One long leaf was infected with beetles and just in the past year has turned completely brown. The last long leaf still looks healthy but really close to her bedroom so it was time for that one as well. Both in South Carolina, she is a county away, approximately 20 miles away from me. The two pronged question here is will there be a future issue for the pines left in her yard due to the likely beetles that killed the one pine? Second part is I asked for a section of the trunk of each pine to be cut into rounds to use in my landscape as a pathway, is there a risk of me transferring insects where they should not be or any other issues I should think about before placing these? The hope is to provide a history of not only the trees life but also my father in the sense that they have been in this house for over 45 years, so these trees saw basically my whole family grow.