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hbg.50 Posted January 2, 2023 Share Posted January 2, 2023 Ha! Yes, I was just commenting after the freeze how my trees seemed to be hanging on to their leaves and then "poof" they all decided to drop their leaves in the last few days. What a relief! In my case it is oak trees. 🙂 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reefmonkey Posted January 3, 2023 Share Posted January 3, 2023 (edited) 22 hours ago, hindesky said: Ornamental Pear Trees Decided Today was the Day Ugh, Bradford pears. Unless they are sterile their flowers smell so bad, and they are terribly invasive (even the "sterile" ones can on occasion cross-pollinate). But your street has a potentially bigger problem now. Bradfords are already structurally very weak trees, with those deep v-notch branches breaking off the trunk very easily (and only live about 20 years anyway, then fall apart, literally). And they are especially suceptible to ice and wind. If those leaves all dropped at once a week after that deep freeze we had, I'd take that as a major warning sign those trees were very stressed. We have an ice storm, or even heavy wind gusts, those things could be coming down. I wouldn't park my car anywhere near them if I were you. Edited January 3, 2023 by Reefmonkey Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hindesky Posted January 3, 2023 Author Share Posted January 3, 2023 I was asked to trim them once about 15 years ago because they had numerous branches growing toward the sidewalk and building. They later had a tree trimmer cut some branches that were touching the building, raccoons and possums were using the branches to get on the roof and building nests on the roof. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reefmonkey Posted January 3, 2023 Share Posted January 3, 2023 Hmmm 15 years ago? So they are definitely close to the end of their natural lives now, then. So they'll be coming down soon one way or another. Sucks, I hate paying to take down trees. When the time comes, get with Trees For Houston since they are along the city ROW like that, as a nonprofit they'll give a a good price on replacements, and good guidance on suitable ones. https://www.treesforhouston.org/trees Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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