Joylynn Hardesty

Ooooh! Judson's YouTube on crepe myrtles. I missed that one

They ran the lines late winter. The trees and everything leafed out as normal. They slowly struggled and died out late July.

The last picture shows a row of dead privit. The dead portion is 10 feet away from the lines, which run to the left. Between the lines one the dead privit is 10 feet of mown grass. 5 foot dead then you see everything to the right is green. There is no reason to spray 10 feet away from the lines.

This pattern of death is consistent along the highway power lines, also in locations extremely difficult to access.

Hunny is almost always home, on alert for strangers wandering around on our place. Oddly I kinda wish they had sprayed, because most of this would recover.

There is a change in the energy field below the lines. I myself standing directly under the new lines can feel the new field. I believe that the new energy field is the cause of deaths. We have had 5g from a different provider hung from the same poles that did not have this effect. I believe that different plants have different tolerances.

I've observed over the years the effect of the bad spraying that the electric company has done. It is not the same kind of scorched earth damage.

This past late winter our electric company installed fiber for Internet. It has killed many of my shrubs and trees. Fortunately, most were volunteers at no financial cost. There were no nasty spraying involved.

Observe.




Watching the land under the power lines, I've been trying to figure out what may survive there. These are not the complete lists. Will add as more are seen.

List of the dead
Wild cherry trees
An apple tree
Chinese privit
Wild roses
Black locust
Hybrid willows (type unknown)
Goldenrod!
Poke salat

List of survivors
Pine trees
Oaks
Callery pears
Elderberries
Redbud trees
Weigela
Spiderwort
Passion fruit
Some spiky plant with spearlike leaves like yucca

Seen below is live privit at 15 feet away from the power lines. To the left, that tangle of dead sticks is mostly privit.



Has anyone else had success with trees under these circumstances?

Thanks guys! I would like to keep it under 10 feet tall. Any tips on pruning?

Here are pictures from early spring 2025. Everything had signs of life. We had cut the tree size stakes to 3 feet tall. Necessary because my property line has electric lines running down two sides.







Here the fountain grass established nicely even at the low height early spring it appeared to be slowing down the river. One clump got knocked over in the rushing waters, but it is still living. This picture is from this week, September 2025.


And here is my pretty fountain grass nursery. I may wait till the fall rains are over before transplanting so I don't have more tipped over clumps. We'll see.



Only one willow survived. Grrr!

Tree? Shrub? Dunno. Woody trunk, currently 6 feet tall with the bloom at the central leader. It must be a gift from the birdies! I bent the branches around to get details. It is growing upward, not naturally bending down.

I found the lyrics here on lyrics.com

To mend the crack, I'd try some bow ties. I have never done this, so here are some instructions that make sense to me.

Here's a blog about bow ties where I found the pretty picture below.




Dunno what to do with the screw.