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Dwarf Alberta fire damage

19 years ago

I have (or had) two dwarf alberta spruce trees nearly forty years old. I could not have asked for them to look any nicer. Unfortunately, one of them cought on fire ( I'm too ashamed to say how. Will it come back? Is there anything I can do to help it?

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pineresin
19 years ago
Not if the foliage is brown or worse.

Resin
ken_adrian Adrian MI cold Z5
19 years ago
was beer involved??? ... rotf ... lol ...

the best you can do .. is wait until next spring .. and see what happens...

i am of the school of 'the weirder the better' in conifers.. and presuming some parts of it will survive ... by the time you prune out all the dead stuff ... it is gunna be one weird plant .. lol ..

but the real issue.. is ... do you want this reminder sitting there forever????? ... lol

perhaps its time to be done with it.. a liberal application of a chainsaw .. at or about ground level .. and replace it with some ultra superb replacement.. that will excite you each time you look at it .. so that you can see that your unadmitted 'cause' was WORTH IT ...lol..

come on.. fess up ...what happened ... so many options are rolling through my head ....

good luck .. ken
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