![]() He said live oaks, which are resistant to windstorms, often are over-pruned for “that dramatic effect of those long branches, but when you put all that wind right on the branch tip, that is not a good pruning practice. That also will add to the failure of that branch during a wind event.”įort Myers arborist Rick Joyce, who consults at the Edison & Ford Winter Estates, calls this practice “lion-tailing.” “When you take the branches and leaves off the interior of the tree, all you are left with is a long branch with a tuft ball of foliage on the outside, which causes it to swing way more than if it were foliated. He said leaves “are acting as a parachute to slow the swing of the limb” in a hurricane. That is extremely unhealthy for that tree.” You remove all the interior branches and you light them up because the branches are so beautiful. Gilkey is among those tree experts who recommend against severe pruning of oak trees for dramatic uplighting. That is how nature thins itself out so it did not have a catastrophic fail.” ![]() But every hour, the tree lost more leaves, more small branches, and it kind of cleaned and thinned itself so that when the big winds got here, there was less mass for that wind to pull against. on the day of the storm than it did at 9 p.m., when the storm came through. “It’s the beauty of nature,” Gilkey explained, noting that he has five oak trees at his home on the Sarasota mainland. Those branches, and the ones from which we made such tall piles of debris, are a good thing, said Sarasota landscape architect Michael Gilkey in a recent interview. ![]() As crews slowly pick up roadside plant debris, owners are noticing patches of light brown in their oak trees, where partially broken branches are hanging until they eventually fall. Hurricane Irma may be fading from memory in much of the state, but Florida homeowners continue to cope with the storm’s fallout.Įspecially in their landscapes. This column originally appeared on October 8, 2017 Editor's Note: While Harold Bubil takes some time off, we'll reprise some of his popular columns.
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