Texas Gardening: OK, next one in the yard - is my tree going to make it?, 0 by eetrapnoel

eetrapnoel wrote:
Keep in mind Im a tree newbie. This is the patented (burlap bag) oak that is plopped in every new home's yard. This one was blown over three times (uprooted) and the leaves fell off. I followed the local HD guys instructions about bending a twig or branch - if it snaps its dead and removed them. The pic shows all I have left and is about 9ft tall, the remaining green leaves seemed to do better after the dead limb removal, but are slowly going dead too. I am hand watering every day for about 3 min. Will it recover? If so will it be a disfigured twisted mess or can/should I cut it to re-grow right? Or.... should I let it go. Thanks

This message was edited Aug 6, 2009 1:58 PM