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Anything I can do with a healthy Holly tree that needs to be taken out?
Posted on 2/5/23 at 2:19 pm
Posted on 2/5/23 at 2:19 pm
I have a spot in my backyard that needs to be cleared for a project, and it consists of a beautiful ~12’ tall and 8ft wide holly tree. I’m assuming there is nothing that can be done to salvage this correct? Figured I’d ask for ideas before chopping it up.
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Posted on 2/5/23 at 4:45 pm to TigerTatorTots
The older and larger the tree the lower of the odds of a successful transplant. You would likely remove up to 90% of the root system removing it yourself. But if you want to give a try, now, ASAP, is the time do it, actually a couple months back would have better, but …….
Posted on 2/5/23 at 7:40 pm to CrawDude
They are very resilient. Maybe one that size might not transplant well, but I guarantee if you cut it off at the root with a chainsaw in 2 years time it would be about 3 feet tall and healthy again. Had one get too tall to manage and I chopped it down to the ground. Then cut the other four down as well. We planted some ground cover plants and left some shorter shrubs in the beds. Couple years later and I had awesome looking Holly again.
Posted on 2/5/23 at 10:21 pm to TigerTatorTots
I have one literally growing out the base of my wooden fence. I hate to take it out but this year, it's going down.
Posted on 2/6/23 at 4:51 am to TigerTatorTots
Healthy looking tree! But she's too big to transplant with regular means. You would need heavy equipment to tackle that booger.
Posted on 2/6/23 at 9:47 am to TigerTatorTots
Root prune the size of your rootball, now. Predig in a month. Dig the remaining a month after that. You will need a Bobcat, or tractor, to lift it. Or, if you can get a tree spade in there, that is best, but most $$$. Plan on sacrificing everything around it to get a proper root ball.
Posted on 2/7/23 at 12:55 pm to TigerTatorTots
I had an even bigger one. I got rid of it myself, but it was sending out suckers for years. The roots have a reserve of carbohydrates, and will come back as long as that is not fully depleted, or at least that is what the guy at the garden center told me.
I cut it as low as as I could to the ground with a chainsaw. Then I drilled holes into the stump, poured kerosene into the holes and burned and burned and burned.
Id do that then chip away with an ax. I repeated that process over and over again until most of the root ball was gone.
Then I clipped each sucker that came up and treated with triclopyr.
I cut it as low as as I could to the ground with a chainsaw. Then I drilled holes into the stump, poured kerosene into the holes and burned and burned and burned.
Id do that then chip away with an ax. I repeated that process over and over again until most of the root ball was gone.
Then I clipped each sucker that came up and treated with triclopyr.
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