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Wed, Jun 13, 12 at 17:47
| Could anyone identify what is wrong with our old dogwood tree please? The bark is just falling away when touched. |
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- Posted by uptightbuyer 8 (My Page) on Wed, Jun 13, 12 at 17:52
| Here is another closer photograph. |
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- Posted by uptightbuyer (My Page) on Wed, Jun 13, 12 at 17:54
| Sorry, tried to send another picture but it won't go through somehow! |
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- Posted by gardenapprentice none (My Page) on Wed, Jun 13, 12 at 21:47
| maybe a borer? |
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| I see a dancing bear in the bark pattern. Maybe it was hit by a miniature circus bear. Yeah, I'm pretty sure it was a circus bear spinning a basketball in his right hand when he hit the tree... or perhaps a dog was chasing a squirrel at an extremely fast rate and the squirrel jerked when he should have juked and face-planted into your dogwood throwing a bur oak acorn out of his right hand as he smacked the trunk. Other possibilities are borer, drought last year, onerous kids etc Sorry I could not be better help John |
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| We have a dogwood like that and surprisingly the bark is starting to grow back! |
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| Looks like normal flaking to me. Mike |
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| Don't know if dogwoods are susceptible, but looks a lot like 'smooth patch', seen commonly on some of the oaks. |
Here is a link that might be useful: Smooth Patch of Oaks
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- Posted by uptightbuyer (My Page) on Fri, Jun 15, 12 at 18:04
| Thank you everyone for your input. Lucky, it really does look very similar to one of the pictures on that website you sent me about Smooth Patch on Oaks, but I can't find anything on smooth patch on dogwoods. I hope this second picture uploads properly. It kind of looks like a running sore. You can see on closer inspection there is a lot of green stuff stuck to it. No borer holes that I can see. I just want to know what to do with it. This is a very cherished old dogwood, in spring the talk of the neighborhood. |
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- Posted by uptightbuyer (My Page) on Fri, Jun 15, 12 at 18:23
| There it is just behind the wheelbarrow, last summer. |
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- Posted by uptightbuyer (My Page) on Fri, Jun 15, 12 at 18:25
| And here it is in spring. |
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| The flaking isn't going into the cambium layer. It's natural for older Dogwoods to do that. Don't worry about it. Take a look at other older dogwoods in your area to see the same. Mike |
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- Posted by uptightbuyer (My Page) on Sun, Jun 17, 12 at 15:15
| Thanks Mike. I hope my pictures of the flaking on my old dogwood help other worried gardeners. P.S. The Italian cypresses are doing well since I cut off the extra leaders on both trees, they seem to have strengthened up a bit, but I still have the top of the big tree supported for safety's sake. Patty |
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- Posted by zinfanatic (My Page) on Wed, May 15, 13 at 18:56
| My young dogwood was planted about five years ago in my Berkeley Calif. garden. Originally the blooms were light pink and now are all white. I like the pink. Is there any supplement or fertilizer that will help turn it back to pink? |
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