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Mon 14 Jun, 2004 09:04 pm
I have three beautiful dogwood trees along the grass between the sidewalk in front of my house and the curb. For the last 4 years they have been perfectly healthy. Last year, one of them started to develop a hole in the trunk right where the trunk meets the ground. By now it's gone through about half the trunk and I'm afraid the tree will fall over. However, I don't see any bugs or termites in there, the tree is still standing straight up and the leaves all look healthy and are blooming fine. I would really hate to have to cut it down, and the other 2 trees look fine. I know practically nothing about gardening so I was wondering if anyone knew what this was or what yearly maintenence I should be doing on these trees. Thanks
What type of Dogwood? Where are you (climate conditions)? How big is the hole? What does the wood in the hole look like? How big/old is the tree?
Dogwoods aren't terribly fussy. They generally like part sun (60% sun), though they can take considerable sun or shade. They like moist, but not wet soil of woodland composition (light and loamy). They benefit from yearly pruning to thin out the smaller and inner branches.
I'd get an arborist to look at it if you can afford to.
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