Notes on trees in Winston-Salem and Forsyth County: the species over this housing stock, what the ice does to them, what the work costs, and which city rules apply.https://winstonsalemtreeco.com/https://winstonsalemtreeco.com/blog/who-owns-the-tree-by-the-curb/https://winstonsalemtreeco.com/blog/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.Sun, 26 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTSilas Creek Tree Cohttps://winstonsalemtreeco.com/blog/the-december-2002-ice-storm/https://winstonsalemtreeco.com/blog/the-december-2002-ice-storm/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.Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTSilas Creek Tree Cohttps://winstonsalemtreeco.com/blog/why-water-oaks-fail-first/https://winstonsalemtreeco.com/blog/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.Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTSilas Creek Tree Cohttps://winstonsalemtreeco.com/blog/leaning-trees-and-saturated-clay/https://winstonsalemtreeco.com/blog/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.Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTSilas Creek Tree Cohttps://winstonsalemtreeco.com/blog/construction-damage-shows-up-late/https://winstonsalemtreeco.com/blog/construction-damage-shows-up-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.Thu, 02 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTSilas Creek Tree Cohttps://winstonsalemtreeco.com/blog/the-bradford-pear-problem/https://winstonsalemtreeco.com/blog/the-bradford-pear-problem/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.Fri, 26 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTSilas Creek Tree Cohttps://winstonsalemtreeco.com/blog/summer-drought-and-oak-decline/https://winstonsalemtreeco.com/blog/summer-drought-and-oak-decline/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.Thu, 18 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTSilas Creek Tree Cohttps://winstonsalemtreeco.com/blog/pines-in-an-ice-storm/https://winstonsalemtreeco.com/blog/pines-in-an-ice-storm/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.Wed, 10 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTSilas Creek Tree Cohttps://winstonsalemtreeco.com/blog/brush-piles-and-what-the-city-takes/https://winstonsalemtreeco.com/blog/brush-piles-and-what-the-city-takes/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.Tue, 02 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTSilas Creek Tree Co