FRANKENTREE...

We have three beautiful trees in our back yard, going from north to south. The one on the north is darker green, taller and has bigger leaves. The one on the south is smaller, fewer and smaller leaves, and the leaves are a pale green. The tree in the middle is pretty much midline with its looks, height, leaf color, etc. But the middle tree has dark sap running down from some of the main branches right at the top of the trunk. We took several pictures and took them to the local nursery to seek advise. They said that the trees to the south are getting too much water, easy fix...water less. At least that would be easy for anyone but my husband who has the motto "if some is good, a lot is great". So the guys at the nursery weren't concerned about our trees until we showed them the picture of the sap. Apparently we have some sort of beetle boring down into the tree. They said that we needed to BOLT the tree by drilling right through the branches and putting huge permanent bolts through to brace the branches if they start to get weak. Thus the name FRANKENTREE...(named by JT, who apaprently has a name for everyone and EVERYTHING!)

Hopefully this will save the trees, they are beautiful Mulberry trees and we would hate to lose any of them.