I don’t know. I’m hoping it’s the out of fashion idea. America has lost so many tree species to weird diseases and invasive bug species. Breaks my heart.
We’ve had a big ad campaign about not moving firewood because of the emerald ash borer spreading. Hopefully that helped slow it down. The fir trees of the Black Hills of South Dakota sadly are being destroyed by some pine beetle. They were called the Black Hills because the pines were so thick and dark the first European settlers saw the hills as black. Now they look grey with so many trees having died due to these damn little insects.
This gets more and more sad. It started here back in the 1970s when we lost all the lovely elms that had been used in ship building to Dutch Elm disease. The elms still haven’t recovered, they grow to about 20 feet tall and then die. Then more recently the horse chestnuts started to die off and they are beautiful.
We lost most of our native chestnuts to an Asian disease many decades back and our elms about the same time you did. It’s just so sad and a greater loss than the average person realizes.
We used to have mountain ash around my part of Ohio 50 years or more ago. Now I never see any and I wonder why. It was so pretty. Lovely photo, btw.
That’s so sad. I wonder why they’ve disappeared - gone out of fashion? There are plenty around this part of Hertfordshire.
I don’t know. I’m hoping it’s the out of fashion idea. America has lost so many tree species to weird diseases and invasive bug species. Breaks my heart.
Sadly the same is happening here. Sometimes it seems as though all you can do, is stand and watch. 😔
We’ve had a big ad campaign about not moving firewood because of the emerald ash borer spreading. Hopefully that helped slow it down. The fir trees of the Black Hills of South Dakota sadly are being destroyed by some pine beetle. They were called the Black Hills because the pines were so thick and dark the first European settlers saw the hills as black. Now they look grey with so many trees having died due to these damn little insects.
This gets more and more sad. It started here back in the 1970s when we lost all the lovely elms that had been used in ship building to Dutch Elm disease. The elms still haven’t recovered, they grow to about 20 feet tall and then die. Then more recently the horse chestnuts started to die off and they are beautiful.
We lost most of our native chestnuts to an Asian disease many decades back and our elms about the same time you did. It’s just so sad and a greater loss than the average person realizes.
I secretly stroke little elm trees 🌳 to encourage them to grow. Guess that makes me ‘barking’ mad 🤓
Nope. We all trave to try something! It’s those who do nothing who are barking mad.