{"id":641,"date":"2010-12-26T12:00:02","date_gmt":"2010-12-26T17:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/?p=641"},"modified":"2020-12-19T17:26:38","modified_gmt":"2020-12-19T22:26:38","slug":"ice-storm-keep-hands-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/2010\/12\/26\/ice-storm-keep-hands-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Ice Storm- Keep Hands Off"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_665\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/IMG_0042.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-665\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-665 \" title=\"IMG_0042\" src=\"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/IMG_0042-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/IMG_0042-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/IMG_0042-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-665\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ice Coating over Lacebark Pine<\/p><\/div>\n<p>An ice storm is both a beautiful and horrific scene in a garden. The potential for major tree\/shrub breakage is staggering. If you feel powerless, this is good thing.\u00a0\u00a0During the storm, do nothing\u00a0\/ &#8220;hands off&#8221;.\u00a0Most actions will\u00a0likely\u00a0cause more damage than what nature\u00a0may have\u00a0intended.<\/p>\n<p>After the storm assess the landscape areas which\u00a0seem most vulnerable, or that trouble you most. Next, hire an ISA*\u00a0certified\u00a0professional arborist to fit your\u00a0landscape into his\/her schedule.\u00a0At the time of the storm,\u00a0arborists\u00a0are likely\u00a0much too busy with\u00a0emergency callers.<\/p>\n<p>First on your list should be large trees not pruned in many years. They are likely\u00a0shedding diseased, pest ridden, or broken limbs. Weak wooded species like silver maple (<em>Acer saccharinum<\/em>), sycamore or planetree\u00a0(<em>Platanus spp<\/em>.), Bradford pear (<em>Pyrus calleryana<\/em>), poplars (<em>Populus spp<\/em>.), and willow (<em>Salix spp<\/em>.)\u00a0seek to always drop anything from small twigs to large branches. Large evergreens like white pine (<em>Pinus strobus<\/em>)\u00a0and leyland cypress (<em>Cupressocyparis x leylandii<\/em>)\u00a0frequently deposit broken branches following stormy weather.<\/p>\n<p>Ironically, the trees suffering the worse damage are those topped by neighbors and utility companies. The re-growths\u00a0are very weak and snap off when the ice load reaches critical mass. Properly pruned trees\u00a0ride out most ice storms. Take care of your trees and trees take care of you.<\/p>\n<p>*International Society of Arboriculture<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An ice storm is both a beautiful and horrific scene in a garden. The potential for major tree\/shrub breakage is staggering. If you feel powerless, this is good thing.\u00a0\u00a0During the storm, do nothing\u00a0\/ &#8220;hands off&#8221;.\u00a0Most actions will\u00a0likely\u00a0cause more damage than what nature\u00a0may have\u00a0intended. After the storm assess the landscape areas which\u00a0seem most vulnerable, or that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[634,601,630,7,1,162],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=641"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12911,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641\/revisions\/12911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}