05/11/2024
Unfortunately, from time to time, this happens. It’s not uncommon for people to sneakily “drill and fill” where they drill holes in their neighbours trees and pour in toxic chemicals, engine oil or off the shelf poisons. Rapid decline is often then observed. If the tree dies, sending samples away for testing is helpful for many reasons. My personal favourite being that if a chemical is identified, police are actually able to issue a search warrant to the suspect neighbour and actually go looking for it.