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Much to my horror, this morning I found that something had stripped the bark from the base of my new 'Shirazz'. The bark was just laying at the base of the tree in two pieces. No teeth marks visible, nothing to indicate which varmint did this. The tree has lost about 20% of the total circumference of the trunk bark in an area just beside the graft union. This is probably not what I should have done but I firmly put the bark back on the trunk, (it was still fresh and damp) and wrapped the base with natural twine to hold it tightly in place. It fit perfectly. However I've never heard of this being successful. Should I just go out and unwrap it and let it heal? There is also now a hardware cloth collar around the trunk up to the first limb to eliminate any further damage. For crying out loud what eats bark in July? I expected to have to rabbit proof it for the winter, but summer?
While not for this forum, does anyone know why a 15 yr old Magnolia "Dr. Merrill" would suddeny get verticillium wilt? It looks like it's going to be fatal. This tree was thriving and had not sustained any root injuries or incursions. I'm going to ask the same on Trees and Shrubs too. The scary part is if I have verticillium wilt in the soil that's the end of any new JM aquisitions. This is not a good day for gardening here.
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