Perth's trees are having some issues. We drove through, and it wasn't until later that I'd figured that my camera was on manual focus! These photos are from August 7th.
Downtown Perth’s dead trees coming down ‘in the next few weeks’ – News Jul 25, 2022
It's the Emerald Ash Borer that is to blame. The plan has been approved by council.
Crews will be continuing the work of replacing dead trees along Gore Street next week. Three trees will be removed & replaced, which are circled in the second image.
— Town of Perth 🇨🇦 (@PerthOntarioCan) August 9, 2022
Traffic control measures will be in place. Please take care with driving & walking in the area.#perthcommunity pic.twitter.com/8rmrEWqiLL
Too bad, so sad.
ReplyDelete...they look the same here. We can thank China for importing them.
ReplyDeleteThat is so sad to see that the trees are dead or dying. We have been having our two Ash trees inoculated against The Emerald Ash Borer, but still one of the trees has a lot of dead branches this year ... I think it will die completely in the next year. SO sad about this.
ReplyDeleteFrom yesterday's post, how beautiful are those deer.
We went through that with the Emerald Ash Borer here too -- it's so sad. Some of those trees are so beautiful and knowing they have to come down is so sad. I'm so sorry.
ReplyDeleteHari OM
ReplyDeleteReplacing trees in pavement areas is not the easiest of tasks... I wish them (and the people of Perth) the best for their streetscape!!! YAM xx
The ash in my yard is losing the battle too. Mike cut part of it off a couple of years back but the rest is ready to come down. The cabinets and livingroom floor in my house are ash. When the blight was starting to show up, some of the trees were salvaged. In probably ten years time it will be impossible to get ash wood.
ReplyDeleteA big job ahead...and hopefully the replants will not be the same species that's falling prey to the borer. We have had many forest trees decimated around western NC by a disease of a strange name "Hemlock Wooly Aglelgid."
ReplyDeleteOh, my mistake...it's an insect, not a disease.
ReplyDeleteI am so sorry. The loss of a tree (let alone trees) is always a tragedy.
ReplyDeleteGuess they think they know what they will be attempting to do. Maybe the roots and trunk have a free area where they can dig deeply.So good to give the residents that notice.
ReplyDeleteThat is so sad.
ReplyDeleteThat's really too bad. We are having a problem here with our native ohia trees on the Big Island. I think government is allocating some money to help save them. I think.
ReplyDeleteOur town lost its ash trees some years ago. Unfortunately the street trees in one area were planted very close to one another, so the roots were intertwined, which allowed the pests to spread rapidly and efficiently throughout the neighborhood. I think the replacements were varied among several species of trees in hopes that a similar disaster would be less likely. But you never know how to evade a disaster, do you?
ReplyDeletebest… mae at maefood.blogspot.com
We've got a lot of those dead and dying ash trees around here too.
ReplyDeleteI wonder if the person using Paint to highlight those trees knows how to use the program properly.
ReplyDeletePerth looks like a very charming town. Too bad about the trees though.
ReplyDeleteVery sad
ReplyDeleteThe City Forester should know better that to just plant one Ash after another...they need to plant a variety of trees on the boulevard to escape problems that just go from one species of trees and wipe them all out:(
ReplyDeleteAlways sad to see trees that are dead or dying.
ReplyDeleteAll the best Jan
Trees are so noble. One instinctively feels in sympathy. I wish your dreams all the best
ReplyDeleteI saw an article about the Emerald Ash Borer the other day. It talked about management techniques they've tried. What a shame :(
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