Old and new

Our chestnut trees are very sick. The leaves are eaten by thehorse-chestnut leaf miner. As a result, there are no more leaves. The tree tries to bloom again. We save our chestnut trees using various methods, but a huge drought has weakened these trees greatly.

[Wylie]

That’s a sad tale. Good luck!

[Margaret Brown]

That’s so sad, I hope they recover soon. We had the same happen to all our cherry trees died off with some sort of virus, it’s so sad to see them all cut down.

[Shutterbug]

Same thing happens to our pine forest trees. They get weak from drought and then some kind of infestation moves in. Beautiful capture of the details of the new leaves.

[Lesley]

Great spot and capture. Fingers crossed they all pull through again. I’m always stunned at the resilience of nature.

[Joan Robillard]

Lovely

[Kate]

I hope the drought ends soon and the trees recover

[Judith Johnson]

Your leaves still look very green. We have a problem with our horse chestnut trees in the UK too.

[Walks @ 7]

I hope that the drought ends before these beauties are beyond coming back.

[Christine Sztukowski]

Beautiful colors and detail

[Mags]

Lovely capture and DOF.

[Islandgirl]

That's too bad I hope they survive!

[Heather]

A pretty shot (lovely focus and bokeh), but a sad story. I hope it survives. As Lesley mentioned, nature can be amazingly resilient! Fav

[Ann H. LeFevre]

A Chestnut blight wiped out many trees in the U.S. back in the 60's/70's. It was so sad. Good shot of a sad situation.

[Kathy]

Ditto what @olivetreeann wrote.

[Issi Bannerman]

Oh dear. This photo is lovely though.

[Brian]

Sad story - lovely image

[~*~ Jo ~*~]

So sad, hope they survive and thrive next year. Lovely capture

[mittens (Marilyn)]

Great comparison capture.

[bkb in the city]

Nice shot

[Lin]

Well captured and titled...sorry to hear they are sickly...I love trees so very much.

[Jane Pittenger]

So sad

[Boxplayer]

Excellent documentary shot, there are so many diseases attacking our trees these days