Mid-Atlantic Gardening: Awareness of a Rhododendron Disease, 1 by dayli

dayli wrote:
I read about sudden oak death last year while researching what might be killing my neighbor's oak tree. We looked for the cankers but saw none. The symptoms matched oak decline, which has been known here since the early 1900s. The limbs die from the tips inward over a number of years with small clusters of leaves bunched together on the dying branches.

Here is an earlier picture of the tree, the branches that were completely dead were cut off last year. The tree showed no sign of improvement this year and the decision was made to take it down. This was done last week. Even though it was a shadow of its former self, the street feels very different without it.