Some of the sites I looked at make me think the "peeling/cracking"
bark is normal thing. I wonder. One site said they
have "exfoliating" bark. Hard to know without really seeing it up
close.=20
They do sound pretty.=20=20
bahB SoCal
--- In gardenmessenger@yahoogroups.com, "thredbender"
> Good Morning,
> Well the tree looked to be a few years old when we purchased it.
It is
> a really nice tree with pretty leaves and nice weeping branches. It
> has fairly smooth bark. The new leaves have a pinkish tint to
them. We
> have had the tree two summers now.
> Like I stated before, the bark is cracked on the south and west
sides
> of the tree so I would think it is from winter sun burn. I am
going to
> try to put one of the bird baths on the sw side of the tree and
see if
> that will give it some relief.
> I have also thought of wrapping some sort of netting around it to
hold
I could only wish this was peeling bark. Sorry to say it is not. If
you look into the splits you will see the "meat" of the tree. The skin
is peeling back showing the tree. I also have a paperbark maple, that
has true peeling bark and is beautiful. So different is the problem
with the Katsura. Nothing like River Birch or Hickory either.
Thanks for the positive thought. :-)
Still growing,
Marsha in NW,Ohio
