Dried, curled up leaves on Maples

Dead leaves on a Sycamore with anthracnose. The tree will leaf out again this summer, replacing these leaves with healthy ones.

Heather wrote about anthracnose on her oak leaf hydrangea a few weeks ago.

With our wet spring, maples and other trees have also been affected by this disease. This is a purely aesthetic problem, and treatment is not recommended. (The exception would be if the tree seems to have this problem year after year, or if you have a Sycamore with anthracnose.)

It is a hassle now, when leaves are dropping and the tree looks unhealthy, but in a few weeks, the tree will leaf out again and go back to normal.

To help your trees recover, water them during dry spells this summer.

Are you having trouble with anthracnose? Is this the first year you have encountered this problem?

Feel free to E-mail pictures of your lawn and tree problems, and we'll address them on the blog!