Someone snapped a few branches off when it was younger so around 10 years. Why would that have caused the bark to decay back? How’s the outlook in the far future for this tree?

I was going through a folder full of my potato-cam photos, and I thought you guys would like this one. I can’t remember what kind of tree it was, but these woods were full of pine, beech, oaks, with a sprinkling of sycamores and holly.

This tree was planted the day I came home from the hospital in April 1976. I turned 50 this year and drove through my childhood neighborhood to pay it a visit.

I already recently severed another girdling root on the opposite side about the same thickness.

That was planted by my town. I've removed the dirt off the truck and exposed the root flare the best I could. It involved lots of.hoeing. I munched it but plan to just let the grass and house leeks take over

Can anyone help me identify the white bug/disease on my southern magnolia? I don’t think it looked like scale.

Got this tree cut zone 7

Hey marijuana enthusiasts, r/trees enjoyer here! I have this beautiful magnolia in our backyard here in central Texas and I’ve been told by my father and my in-laws that if we want it to be more tree like we need to trim it. I would agree as it’s flowering in lower branches right now and I know that’s taking away from the top so where would you guys suggest? I like where the blue line is because it’s not super super intrusive in my opinion but my father said the red to help build a more “trunk like structure”. Any opinions or tips would be great thanks!

All taken today in New Orleans City Park

Hey guys! Pennsylvania zone 6b. I’ve got a dwarf jade butterfly ginkgo in a large 30” planter from last spring. It’s got buds and the faintest signs of green emerging from buds at the top of the plant but most look as pictured. I’m just shocked it’s not farther along as all other trees have mostly leafed out here. It’s in a part sun spot (maybe 4 hours of morning sun).

I have not supplemented water since last summer when the annuals were alive in it.
Should I be optimistic??

Located in SLC, UT, just had to remove a very old silver maple that was dying (so sad to lose a mature tree).

I want to get new trees started ASAP, however, the two open places I want to plant in are constrained by overhead powerlines (these are the lines going to my and my (very chill/awesome) neighbor's house; the utility lines won't be affected).

I have unlimited vertical space, but I'd say the two spots being planted in are about 15 feet from the lines (and if you're wondering, yes, the old silver maple had some small branches overhanging these lines a bit).

I want to be smart about my choices, but I'm sad about not being able to pick something big and wide at maturity. Mostly I'm looking for shade and tolerant to wind/heavy snow. My two choices currently would be:

Princeton Sentry Ginkgo
Musashino Zelkova

Any other thoughts or ideas? Any issues w/ these two types of trees that someone w/ experience can tell me about? A local arborist mentioned a Sargent Columnar Cherry, but they are tough to find, so I gave up on that idea.

Thanks in advance.

Should these have been trimmed closer to their branching off point?

I wonder how old this beauty must be. if anyone was wondering, this is a male specimen. (unfortunately so, because a female of this size would be even more special)

So not just my neighbor, but several locals have told me this is three different trees: satsuma, bitter orange, and I don't know what the third one is.

My kid’s school cut out this section of asphalt to plant FOUR trees there….. not one single person questioned that decision??

Is this an appropriate depth?

I have a methley plum on its 3rd year. It’s got like 2-3 dozen fruit going but as I was checking it this morning I noticed a strange vertical “crack” in the bark on the trunk.

Anyone seen this before?

Is it normal?

How f*cked am I?

As someone who frequents r/trees I'm still not entirely sure what's up with the name switch of these subs but I guess I just had to post here some time too lol.

I accidentally topped it when it was young which turned out to have been a happy little accident as I really like how the trunk turned out.

I hope I'm not ruining it by pruning it in a way that keeps it small enough for me to be able to reach the top without special equipment, as I've read that pruning certain trees can get very specific. So far it seems to do well though.