{"id":708,"date":"2010-07-13T11:41:47","date_gmt":"2010-07-13T15:41:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/?p=708"},"modified":"2010-07-14T23:34:27","modified_gmt":"2010-07-15T03:34:27","slug":"lack-of-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/lack-of-water\/","title":{"rendered":"lack of water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/cjl1012-riverview-trees-n7095.jpg\" alt=\"dying trees\"><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Yellow poplar (Liriodendron) is notorious for shedding many leaves during summer droughts, sycamore (Platanus) sheds some leaves, and buckeye (Aesculus) may shed all of its leaves as drought continues. On the other hand, leaves of dogwood (Cornus) usually wilt and die rather than <a href=\"http:\/\/encyclopedia.farlex.com\/abscised\">abscise<\/a>. If water becomes available later in the growing season, some trees defoliated by drought may produce a second crop of leaves from previously dormant buds. Many times these leaves are stunted.&#8211;Dr. Kim D. Coder<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>These three trees planted in 2009, a swamp white oak and two sycamores in Riverview Park, need water. Trees are like dogs, or children, if you plant two inch caliper ($100) trees, they have to be cared for until their root systems are established.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/warnell.forestry.uga.edu\/warnell\/service\/library\/index.php3?docID=165\">Dr. Coder&#8217;s article<\/a> these juveniles might still have a chance&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yellow poplar (Liriodendron) is notorious for shedding many leaves during summer droughts, sycamore (Platanus) sheds some leaves, and buckeye (Aesculus) may shed all of its leaves as drought continues. On the other hand, leaves of dogwood (Cornus) usually wilt and die rather than abscise. If water becomes available later in the growing season, some trees &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/lack-of-water\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;lack of water&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[32,15,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charlottesville","category-damage","category-flora"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=708"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":740,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708\/revisions\/740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}