it would make great charlie brown tree at christmas or any other holiday, such as ''MANU MOMENTS' or family birthdays, grads, Easter, et,c.... OR, a wisteria vine support.

Lol!, Ragna. I don’t think my HOA would like your idea.

Irene, you know where I live. Let me know.

Omar

Omar, can we make this a dead tree post? Or in my case a near dead tree post?

My beautiful Mexican olive that MsRed Byrd Irene gave me didn't fare well when we had a sudden freeze after an up to then mild winter. All the other trees are well leafed out but it is mostly bare.

Only one of the main branches is leafing out, and that is happening not on the ends, which means there will be a lot of dead twigs that I can't reach to trim back.

Once before it froze to the ground and returned to full tree size in one season. What would you do? Leave or cut it down and give it a chance to grow back?

I had a similar experience with my kidneywood tree last year. Half of the tree did not leaf out until June. I would wait until then. If you just can’t stand seeing that ugly look for that long, I would trim the whole tree in order to eventually get a balanced shape, not just “half”.

Omar

Omar... so funny! LOL