Waterfall Japanese Maple - Crushed by Tree Limb - September 2024
Earlier this Summer, we had a storm that dropped a couple of good-sized limbs from a few of our trees. A big one from one of our Oaks. And a few medium-sized limbs from one of the Black Walnut trees. On that Black Walnut limb were ten-to-twelve green-covered walnuts that weighed the limb down - and likely caused it to snap due to the weight. With a semi-wooded lot with some mature trees, that happens from time-to-time. Normally...the limbs drop the ground harmlessly. But not this time. This time, it came down DIRECTLY on top of our small Waterfall Japanese Maple tree *right* at one of the tree's joints. That limb SNAPPED off one of the major limbs on the Japanese Maple. See below for a few photos showing the damage on the Waterfall Japanese Maple tree : And, here, below, is the limb in question. I fished it out of the bed and threw it on the lawn. This was back in June. Fast-forward three months to now. How is the tree doing? Below is a photo showing the Waterfall