It will be fine as it already set buds but I wonder if it send the necessary reserves to the root system?

Arktrees

Most other plants look fine. The only other plant that looked in poor shape was Hydrangea. Others just lost more leaves.

One picture shows the golden carpet. I gave my neighbor this tree last fall as it was a design idea gone wrong on my part. We had the whole neighbor bonding thing going on during the transplant and planting. Packed it up for the winter. When I saw him in the spring he asked if he had to do anything special and I just said, water it deeply if you don't get rain for a couple weeks. Well the jerk off didn't water it 1 time in the driest summer in over 100 years. I watered it occasionally because of its location but it was still stressed just because it had almost peak fall color in early October.

Sorry, it was raining and I had to zoon from indoors. Still don't know what happened with the pic above. It shows as broken in my account. Perhaps a corrupt file.

lovemytrees,
We got our first frost/freeze last weekend/early week. Pushing our color change along even though it has been warm the last couple days, and severe weather is expected today/tonight.

Arktrees

We've too got heavy rain going here in A-Town. Of course I'm loving it, even if it is making outside work impossible. Also providing a good test to the big stream restoration that just wrapped up Friday. Like most urban streams, very flashy in big rain events...I do hope (And expect) that all the work will hold up. Actually, the tree/shrub/herbaceous plant plugs planting is going in next year. Used a product on this job called "BioD blocks" made by a firm called Rolanka, if anyone's interested in this sort of thing. Trees, shrubs, and forbs, sedges and grasses will go into and around that stuff.

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I haven't seen density like that anywhere in SE WI.

I got consistent fall color otherwise in the past. Likely as it it gets cooler sooner in this area.

My Beijing Gold, White Lightening, Pete's Dwarf and Mariken all turned quick and dropped in mid-Sept. Since they are all young I'm thinking they were all a bit more stressed.

Another thing I love about your area is the re-emergence of Thuja occidentalis-northern white cedar-in groves as a naturally-occurring species. Yeah I know, I geek about some strange stuff!

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Its not a very large area though. Go 5 miles east and you are in Jackson. Which is extremely flat and all clay. It must be a good clay as two of SE WI largest nurseries (Johnsons and Minors) have farms in this area. Same goes for Mequon which is just south of Cedarburg.

Some areas near Big and Little Cedar lake have masses of norway spruce. I know they aren't native but I don't know how and who planted 100s and 100s of them in the middle of nowhere.

I'll have to check out the Big and Little Cedar Lake areas. See the signs on the highway all the time. Lots of NS all around the Lake Church area too as well as Mequon and Cedarburg itself. Son's on Green Bay Rd. Right by his house there's some real big and tall ones. Thanks.

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