[Arid_gardener] Question from Home-Hort WWW page

[markvie at cox.net]

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markvie at cox.net

My palo verde tree has seemed healthy until just recently.  It had some flowers this spring (although not a great number).  A wind storm blew the flowers off of all of the palo verde trees in our area.  Since that time the bark of the tree has turned a copper color, starting at the base and now moving up the tree.  No leaves are present.  The branches have taken on a yellow appearance.  The tree is a tall mature tree (20' tall).  It was transplanted from one spot in our yard to another one year ago.  It was moved by a tree spade with plenty of soil and surrounding roots.  Our house is new and the tree was native.  It had mistletoe which we cut out and it was trimmed quite a bit.  For the first several months I deep watered it quite a bit.  Since then it has been watered once a week for two hours.

Any suggestions?


Any suggestions?