![]() ![]() That is how nature thins itself out so it did not have a catastrophic fail.” But every hour, the tree lost more leaves, more small branches, and it kind of cleaned and thinned itself so that when the big winds got here, there was less mass for that wind to pull against. on the day of the storm than it did at 9 p.m., when the storm came through. “It’s the beauty of nature,” Gilkey explained, noting that he has five oak trees at his home on the Sarasota mainland. Those branches, and the ones from which we made such tall piles of debris, are a good thing, said Sarasota landscape architect Michael Gilkey in a recent interview. As crews slowly pick up roadside plant debris, owners are noticing patches of light brown in their oak trees, where partially broken branches are hanging until they eventually fall. Hurricane Irma may be fading from memory in much of the state, but Florida homeowners continue to cope with the storm’s fallout.Įspecially in their landscapes. This column originally appeared on October 8, 2017 ![]() Editor's Note: While Harold Bubil takes some time off, we'll reprise some of his popular columns. ![]()
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