Our maple tree has only leaves on the end of the branchs and they are wilted. We had a mild winter, It looked like it had buds and then it got cold again,, are we losing our tree? It has always been beautiful.
Extension
Message
From:
Richard Hentschel
Extension Educator, Horticulture
DuPage/Kane/Kendall Unit hentsche@illinois.edu
If your cold weather hit right as the buds were expanding, they could have been killed. Diseases do not typically cause a tree to be healthy one year and severely damaged the next.. If the buds were killed it will take a few weeks for the tree to generate new ones and begin to leaf out. Please contact your local extension office to find out if there has been a problem locally.
