The top of my tree is dying
Bare gray leafless branch tips standing above an otherwise leafy crown — the classic stag-head look. Leaves smaller and paler than in previous years, or coloring up and dropping in August instead of October. Sprouts breaking out along the trunk and the large limbs low down, which is the tree trying to rebuild a crown at a height it can still supply. Fine twigs that snap brittle instead of bending.
Within weeks
The top of a tree is the far end of the supply line and the hardest place to push water to. When a tree cannot meet demand it abandons its most expensive real estate first, dying back from the top and from the outside in. So dieback that starts high is a message about the bottom of the tree. In most cases the trouble is in the roots or in the water-conducting tissue of the stem, not in the branches you are actually looking at.
What it usually costs
Normally a tree trimming job: $250 to $1,400 around Indianapolis, depending on size and access. A range, not a quote.
The top of my tree is dying by town
- The top of my tree is dying in Indianapolis56
- The top of my tree is dying in Carmel42
- The top of my tree is dying in Fishers49
- The top of my tree is dying in Noblesville32
- The top of my tree is dying in Westfield33
- The top of my tree is dying in Zionsville37
- The top of my tree is dying in Greenwood26
- The top of my tree is dying in Avon27
- The top of my tree is dying in Plainfield24
- The top of my tree is dying in Brownsburg25
- The top of my tree is dying in Speedway48
- The top of my tree is dying in Lawrence61
- The top of my tree is dying in Beech Grove48
- The top of my tree is dying in Greenfield29
- The top of my tree is dying in McCordsville45
- The top of my tree is dying in Fortville45
- The top of my tree is dying in New Palestine43
- The top of my tree is dying in Cumberland45
- The top of my tree is dying in Franklin19
- The top of my tree is dying in Bargersville27
- The top of my tree is dying in Mooresville25
- The top of my tree is dying in Camby24
- The top of my tree is dying in Martinsville12
- The top of my tree is dying in Danville23
- The top of my tree is dying in Pittsboro30
- The top of my tree is dying in Whitestown31
- The top of my tree is dying in Lebanon19
- The top of my tree is dying in Sheridan25
- The top of my tree is dying in Cicero31
- The top of my tree is dying in Shelbyville14
Other tree problems
- The bark is falling off my tree
- There are carpenter ants in my tree trunk
- My tree splits into two trunks and it looks like it's coming apart where they meet
- They dug and graded and parked right next to my tree during the build, and now it looks bad
- The trunk is cracked / the tree split down the middleurgent
- I think this tree is dead
- Something stripped the bark off my young tree
- My tree is dropping leaves in July like it's already fall
- I think my ash tree has that beetle
- My tree stood in water after the yard flooded and now it looks sick
- A long vertical split opened up in my trunk over the winter
- There's a big mushroom growing out of my tree
- There's a root wrapped around the base of my tree
- Half the tree is dead and the other half looks fine
- There's a big branch hanging in the treeurgent
- My tree is hollow inside