Every July, reliably. Linden and crabapple get hit hardest here. In Plainfield, the most age-mixed canopy of the three: a genuine 1950s ring plus the pre-1900 Quaker core along Main Street (US 40) carries 60-to-90-year-old shade trees over the street, while Saratoga, Sugar Grove Farms and Legacy Farms hold 10-to-25-year-old planted stock, and the White Lick Creek bluffs hold the town's only real remnant woodland. Ash is gone here as everywhere in Indiana. Ugly, rarely fatal to an established tree.
Plainfield's canopy and what's at risk
The most age-mixed canopy of the three: a genuine 1950s ring plus the pre-1900 Quaker core along Main Street (US 40) carries 60-to-90-year-old shade trees over the street, while Saratoga, Sugar Grove Farms and Legacy Farms hold 10-to-25-year-old planted stock, and the White Lick Creek bluffs hold the town's only real remnant woodland. Ash is gone here as everywhere in Indiana.
What to look for
Leaves skeletonised to lace, worst at the top of the tree, through July.
Whether the tree can be saved
Ugly, rarely fatal to an established tree. A mature linden can lose most of its leaves in July and be fine the following spring.
Timing in Hendricks County
Treatment is a July problem, and hanging beetle traps near the tree makes it worse — they attract more beetles than they catch.
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