How many generations will that be used How much love is invested in such a wonderful pice of furniture 👍💕🕊️👍

Whipping willow makes really nice ones they twisted with a lot of character.

Have you ever used bamboo for a walking stick?

That a for the video. Always good tree advice.

My pecan cavity was almost 2 feet deep, i drilled it to hell and back, 4 holes. drained it good, it makes no sense for me to leave the larva pool in there.

Really appreciate the diversity of what you talk about including the area and I don’t know if most people know that Saratoga is in California so many people live all over the world watch these videos. Thanks for another great information share Mr. Blair . Joe

Quite often people overlook , the beauty of a tree, whether it’s green or walking stick.

awesome idea, we have a serious gopher problem in our yard and I've been looking for an idea that I can use and not worry about our dog getting into poison or traps.

Blair, here's your Comment. Ah, I can't be so cruel, yes you find a long time resident and so generally little to no renovation or even shifts in well worn habits - you can see some obvious long play stories just below the surface.

Bit rude giving the trees the two fingers!

I have a walking stick I made from a green ash resprout. It’s great: perfect size, super straight, light and sturdy.

We maintain a property right outside of Boston Ma. The client has a large Hemlock, at least 80' and during dry seasons we'll have it watered and it makes a huge difference as far as disease or stress the following years.

I'm assuming, if the tops have broken themselves off, I should go ahead and give that a clean cut off? Ice storms broke a bunch of tops this winter. Just want to do what's right for the tree

I would have guessed elm.

Good video.

It doesn't count as topping if it's dead wood

That was a great tree tour, you are pretty dang amazing. I love your videos

I would simply be told i’m never allowed to cut again if i did that…

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If I were a tree I'd rather have fungus nibbling on my roots that drought. Drought is the worst. Also, I wouldn't call it topping. I'd call it "retrenchment" pruning or deadwooding.

One of the sales arborists I work for prescribes topping on occasion. I acquired a topped red maple when I purchased my home 3 years ago - it's helping me hone my restoration pruning skills. Those liquid amber's look to me like a gum tree? same?

Would it be beneficial for the tree to somehow seal this kind of topping wound? As it is not going to close over anyway. The "pruning paste" seems to be controversial topic.

Beautiful pomegranate tree. Mine is much smaller and produces enough to provide for all the neighbors.

I have a power pole on a big lean and lots of cracking. The power company came and looked at it and said the pole was put there in 1969. They said they will let it be until it falls down. I said why wait and create a big power failure since there is a transformer on it. They had no answer.

I work as a tree inspector and that's what i had to think about this week, but it was a horse chestnut! I was thinking about pollarding the tree because its canopy was already rotting away but then i noticed the insect holes in the rest if the trunk so yeah i didn't want it to continue growing like that on a parking lot so I've let him be cut down and replanted.

Maybe the name: Liquid Amber, is a hint that it needs a certain amount of 'liquid', to live...lol..!! Only teasing...couldn't resist that one...!!

what a lovely pomegranate tree, thanks as always Blair!

Thanks for the top tour :) Say I have a white oak (Pubescens) that has a dead top, if I were to trim it down, how to protect the top to keep the bottom alive ? (I'm thinking an upside down tin can, with a cork pad stuck in the center of the inside of the can to space out the wood from the can).

Great detail about the pole lopper... Have several that people discard and a few antique ones... Love your tree knowledge and your experience, old tree lovers live a happy long life if their tools are sharp 🍴🪚🗡️

Has this live oak been lions tailed

You Sir are a wellspring of knowledge. Thank you for sharing it with us.

My Pomegranate bloomed for the first time this year! It's almost five years old. I don't expect fruit, but the flowers were lovely! I'm giving up on Cherry trees. I've planted five and each has not thrived and all but one are gone. The last one is on it's way out. Northern Florida just doesn't work for Cherries, or is it me?

after watching this video i can safely say that those trees are nastYYYY!! Loved it.

If they're not watering the lawn anyway (and good on them for that), they might as well hire someone to cover it in a truckload of mulch. The trees would thank them as well

Hope clients plant new trees. If you enjoy the trees and know they are on the way out, the best thing you can do is get the next trees started while enjoying what is left of the current trees 😃

Love your videos 👍

Always appreciate your insight Blair! Thank you for sharing!

Congratulations. I'm on my second grandchild coming in November.

Hi Blair, this topic comes up a lot with trees located directly under high voltage power lines. Property owners are usually adamantly against "topping", but they are unwilling to accept that the tree was planted in a location where it would be unable to grow to it's full potential and will require constant pruning in a less than ideal manner. Oftentimes property owners and landscape contractors will plant fast growing large species or trees with excurrent growth forms directly under power lines because they think the edges of their property are the ideal locations for trees due to aesthetics. This problem gets even worse in areas like southern California where palm "trees" are common. Unlike real trees, palm trees cannot be stopped from growing vertically and any trimming of new fronds is usually not aesthetically pleasing and is only a temporary safety measure as it will grow new fronds and put on additional height within 6 months. Most Palm species under power lines will eventually grow to the point where they become a safety issue due to contacting the high voltage lines and need to be removed by the utility. Some owners are even unwilling to the understand the severity of the hazard at this point and will reject attempts by the utility to remove the palms(usually at no cost) which results in the utility killing the palm tree as a final resort to keep it from starting a fire or a down wire situation from arching.

Sometimes it's top it or stump it.

Always love the educational pieces, Blair. Thanks!

I’ve got a topped silver maple in my yard, (Not my Doing), It sheds small limbs every week. Every little windy day it’s sheds medium sized green limbs. It’s been topped for 10+ years but I believe it’s on its final years, it’s hollowing out fast. Always upsets me to see a healthy tree topped.

These are the types of stories that I treasure most as an adult, as cliché as that is, it's true. I don't have any special generational hand me down cradle memories, but this type thought and care put into something so seemingly small will give Glenn's family such a nice important memory and functional keepsake that also teaches some lessons(build it right build it once, sharing family objects like this builds connections, etc.). My grandpa is a woodworker/finisher and ran the finishing department in Corona for W.B. Powell when they were I'm business(they did stuff like the wood for restaurants like Claim Jumper or Red Robin, or casinos in Las Vegas, all types of places have his work). So we have a few of us that have the woodworker gene, my dad worked at the finishing department as well, so we have so many awesome and special things they've made, functional or keepsakes. One of the most important to me is an old key rack in the shape of a giant key that everyone in the family would put their keys on when we had our family gatherings(we were very close, like every month had some b-day or event).

Great stuff Blair, and Congratulations to your family on the new 9th arrival coming soon.

How wonderful!

Thank you Blair your a good man.

9! Thats amazing!

Question: Transplanted a silver maple sapling with 4 leaves into a bucket from my yard (which has red clay) today. Added some potting soil and now it has some room to expand and is hopefully in a good home for survival. I’ll be monitoring progress and watering all summer, do you think it will do fine in this hopefully better environment I’ve got in the pot?

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Which wood chips are good for mulch and which ones just attract termites? I had to cut down a 50' live oak in 2020 after I purchased my home in Jax. FL in 2018; it was simply too close to the house and was going to damage the foundation. Hoping to excavate the stump eventually. For now; I just heavy treat the hose and stump area with Taurus SC and granules...