Spring and Summer Drought Impact on Trees in Zone 5b - Weeping White Spruce
For the better part of the Spring and beginning of Summer, our area was in a drought. We had very little rain. Then, starting about three or four weeks ago, we had TONS of rain. The problem is that the drought we experienced was hard on a lot of our garden and yard. I kept up on watering as best that I could, but since we don't have built-in irrigation, I was bound to miss some things. One of the trees that has suffered from the lack of water this year is our little Weeping White Spruce. Here, below, is a photo showing how it has dropped a bunch of needles and has a lot of brown on it. I'm very concerned about it not being able to recover and is on the way towards browning out completely. I noticed it browning out when we came back from a week in Wisconsin and since then, I've tried to baby it with water - every few days a direct watering from the hose. This story from the University of Minnesota Extension office talks about th...