Local Rules
Who Owns the Tree by the Curb
The strip between the sidewalk and the street is city right-of-way, and the trees in it are city trees. What that means when one is dropping limbs on your car.
Field Notes
Tree notes for Forsyth County
Whose tree is by the curb, why one street loses limbs all at once, what a wet week does to a root plate, and what the city will and will not haul away. Short pieces, one subject each.
Seasonal
What the December 2002 Ice Storm Taught the Triad
Up to an inch of ice across forty North Carolina counties, two million customers affected, and ten days to restore power. The trees that came apart had things in common.
Species
Why Water Oaks Fail First
Planted fast-growing and planted in quantity, water oaks reach the end of their comfortable life together. That is why limb drops arrive in clusters on one street.
Species
Leaning Trees and Saturated Clay
A tree that has always leaned is a different case from a tree that has started to. What to look at on the ground, and why wet weeks matter more than windy ones.
Species
Construction Damage Shows Up Five Years Late
A trench, a driveway, or a season of equipment traffic over a root zone does not kill a tree that year. It kills it slowly enough that nobody connects the two.
Species
The Bradford Pear Problem, and the Free Trees for Fixing It
Callery pear is invasive in North Carolina and structurally poor by design. There is also a state program that will give you native trees for removing one.
Seasonal
Brown Leaf Edges in August: Drought or Something Else
Scorched leaf margins on an oak in late summer have two common causes, and telling them apart decides whether you are watering a tree or planning for it.
Seasonal
Why Pines Behave Differently in Ice
Hardwoods shed limbs. Pines bend, hold, and then snap out at the top. If a pine took a lean last winter and never came back, that is a decision rather than a wait.
Local Rules
Brush Piles: What the City Takes and What It Does Not
Six inches wide, six feet long, cut ends the same way. And the rule that catches people out after a crew leaves: the city does not collect contractor-cut brush.
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