August 26, 2025 • 19 mins
Yeah, you get to a certain age, and you think, okay, there are some things I can do well....or at least good enough. Discovering you've been watering trees wrong your entire life is not something I expected to learn about myself after hiring an arborist to help me with our aging tangerine tree. A beloved 50-year-old tangerine tree planted by my father back when I was a teenager. But I did learn something new and I'm hoping I can nurse it back to some level of better health.
The journey began two years ago when water restrictions and scorching temperatures hit Southern California hard. Our tangerine tree, which had just produced a magnificent harvest of hundreds of fruits, started dropping yellowing leaves at an increasing rate. Caught between conflicting advice—one expert saying it needed more water, another claiming it needed less—I watched helplessly as this living family heirloom continued to struggle, its branches becoming increasingly bare.
What the arborist revealed was both simple and revolutionary: trees don't absorb water near their trunks. All those years of carefully directing water to the base of our trees had missed the mark entirely. The fine, absorptive roots exist farther out from the trunk, and proper watering requires reaching these distant zones. She showed me how the tree was literally folding in on itself to conserve resources, a silent cry for help I hadn't recognized. The experience transformed my understanding not just of our tangerine tree, but of our majestic redwood as well. Sometimes the most profound gardening lessons come when we least expect them, and usually after decades of doing something the wrong way. Want to hear more stories about navigating life's learning curves with humor and heart? Subscribe to Only Child Diaries wherever you get your podcasts, and join me in figuring out this adulting thing together.
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Tracy (00:00):
I don't have much of a lawn because it's a Southern
California lawn.
Welcome to the Only ChildDiaries podcast.
I'm your host, Tracy Wallace.
Have you ever felt like youdidn't receive the how-to
brochure on life, that youdidn't get enough guidance about
major life issues?
So did I.
(00:21):
You don't have to be an onlychild to feel this way.
In my podcast, we'll exploresome of the best ways to better
navigate adulting, while doingso with humor and light.
Welcome everyone to the OnlyChild Diaries podcast.
(00:46):
Today I'm going to talk aboutarborists, my recent experience
with an arborist, a treespecialist.
Now, I've talked about ourredwood tree before, if you're a
regular listener.
We have a huge redwood tree inour front yard that everybody,
(01:09):
everybody seems to want tocomment about.
Usually they say, wow, what atree.
Or gosh, isn't this a beautifultree.
Or gee, that's a big tree.
Or oh, is that a pine tree,that's a big tree, or oh, is
(01:32):
that a pine tree?
Anyway, but in the backyard wehave a tangerine tree and I
remember my dad planting itsometime in the 70s.
It was a long time ago and it'sgrown quite a bit since then.
It's quite large.
It's oh gosh.
I'm looking at it now it'sprobably at least 20 feet wide
(01:56):
at the widest point and it'slet's see, I'm not very good
with dimensions I would say it'sat least 20 feet tall.
It's a big tangerine tree andit's provided quite a bit of
shade over the years to ourpatio area but also quite a bit
of fruit to us.
(02:17):
It's been a great, great treeand my dad loved it, we all
loved it.
Well, I shouldn't talk about itin the past tense yet.
Two years ago we had anincredible crop of tangerines.
Usually they start growing.
(02:37):
Let's see, this is August.
Now they start appearing on thetree, I think in June, maybe,
maybe in June, and they'restarting to be green.
They're about the size ofmarbles now.
So it used to be by Decemberthey would be ready to be picked
, and in recent years, maybe bylate January, february, they've
(03:04):
been ready to be picked, whichis interesting to me that it's
kind of changed over the years.
But two years ago we had justan incredible crop of tangerines
.
I would say we had hundreds, atleast 300 or 400 tangerines on
(03:24):
this tree.
Every branch had some fruit.
It was just incredible.
Also, that summer we had waterrestrictions.
That's when it started, becauseof the drought and because of
(03:48):
other factors.
They were repairing an aqueductin our area and so we weren't
allowed to water outside for twoweeks.
I mean, of course I, you know,save some water from the inside
of the house and I would waterspecific parts and parts of
things, water specific parts andparts of things, but it got
(04:10):
really dry, a lot of things gotreally dry in the yard, and
that's when I started to noticea change in the tree and it was
also incredibly hot.
The September, october time ofyear was incredibly hot.
So all these factors led to menoticing that there were more
(04:31):
leaves falling off.
The leaves would turn yellowand eventually they would drop
and I started to get concerned.
So I talked to a friend of minewho knows an arborist that he's
used and I sent him picturesand I said you know, should,
should your arborist friend comeout?
(04:51):
And he said no, he just says itneeds more water.
Just a blanket statement likethat.
I also took pictures to mylocal nursery and I asked their
their advice and they told methat it was getting too much
water.
So you know, do with that whatyou will right.
(05:12):
Kind of confused, I didcontinue to water it and you
know I noticed that our othertrees and we have five trees on
the property.
We have two in front and we havethree in back I planted an
apricot tree probably four orfive years ago Well, no, three
(05:33):
or four years ago I planted anapricot tree and it's doing fine
.
It doesn't get a lot of waterbut it's doing fine.
We have a crepe myrtle and wehave the tangerine tree in the
back.
We have a crepe myrtle and wehave the tangerine tree in the
back.
So parts of it are stilllooking good.
(05:53):
But this past year I've noticedthat, whereas there's still new
growth, there's still parts ofthe tree branches that are
falling off and it's losing alot more leaves.
So last season it hardly boreany fruit, which made sense,
because the year before it justwent crazy, right.
(06:16):
So now we're heading in towardsthe next fruit season.
It does have fruit on it, butit just doesn't have that many
leaves.
And where I've noticed you canlook at something every day,
right, no matter what it is, youcan look at something every day
.
But then maybe, after you lookat it every day, you don't
(06:40):
really see the changes.
I went out there about a monthago and I looked at it and I was
like, wow, it has lost a lot offoliage and I really started to
get concerned.
Now I've read that tangerinetrees have a shelf life, if you
(07:05):
will, of about 50 years.
I would guess that this tree isat least 50 years old.
I wasn't really sure if I calledin a professional, anything
could be done, and I thoughtabout it and I tried contacting
(07:27):
a few arborists.
Our city has a website wherethey actually list arborists
that they recommend certifiedarborists.
Now there are arborists that goout and consult on trees, go
(07:47):
out and consult on trees, andthen there are arborists who
actually also, in addition toconsulting, actually do work on
trees, like tree cutting, and Iprefer to find somebody who is
just a consultant, who doesn'tnecessarily make their living by
cutting trees, right?
So I found a couple people.
(08:09):
I called a couple people andthe first guy that I actually
called he answered the phone andI told him what I was inquiring
about and he said, well, I cancome out, but tangerine trees
really, once they start to go,there's not much that can be
done, but I can still come outand charge you $300.
(08:31):
And I thought, well, okay, thatdoesn't sound too promising,
right?
So I said, well, I'll thinkabout it.
I mean, I really had no ideawhat these things caused.
Anyway.
This other woman that I foundonline, I sent her a message on
(08:56):
her portal.
I thought maybe it's better tojust send a message instead of
calling somebody cold.
Maybe you get a better reaction.
And at first I thought about itand I thought, you know, this is
just a lot of extra effort fornothing.
But as I thought about it moreI realized that the tree is
really important to us.
It's been in our family forover 50 years probably over 50,
(09:22):
I'm guessing at least 50 and itis important and it's been an
investment.
I asked my husband and ofcourse he said you know,
whatever you want to do, honey.
So I scheduled her.
She came out and very nice youngwoman, of course she looked at
the redwood tree in the frontand remarked on it.
(09:45):
And she came in the backyardand looked at the tangerine tree
, examined the base of it,looked at the branches and the
leaves and what have you, andtook some pictures, did some.
(10:05):
You know, I guess, pondering ifyou will.
And then we sat down and talkedand she was here for about an
hour.
Her fee was less than the othergentleman not a lot less, but
it was less and what wasinteresting was that I always
felt that I could water close tothe base of the tree and that
(10:32):
the tree would receive thatmoisture.
Near the base of the tree arejust very fibrous and they don't
pull up the water in that spacethat you have to water further
(10:53):
out from the base of the tree,which I had never even thought
about before, and she couldn'tfind any source of disease or
pests source of disease or pests.
So she felt like the problemwith the tree is just one of not
enough water and she explainedto me how best to water the tree
(11:16):
, which is, once a week, a deepwatering further away, again
further away from the base.
I think where we're challengedin that is that the tree is in a
very narrow space of dirtbetween the patio, which is
concrete, and the driveway,which is concrete, and I don't
(11:38):
really know how it's managed aswell as it has all these years
with that small space.
But I'm willing to try andfollow her tips for watering and
(11:59):
see what happens.
She said that if I do thiswatering schedule, keep up with
it, that most likely I wouldn'tsee a change until next spring.
So it's not.
It's not an immediateturnaround, which is a little
bit disappointing, but of courseit takes the tree time to
(12:22):
rebound, and she also showed mehow the leaves fold in instead
of being spread out, and shesaid that that's the tree
conserving its resources,conserving its strength and its
water and what have you.
So to me what's interesting isthat I have such a green thumb
(12:44):
in so many ways and with so manydifferent plants, and I've
taken care of I mean, I tookcare of the tangerine tree when
we first had it.
One of my mother's caregivershad told me that she turned on
(13:07):
the hose very slowly and let itdrip on the tree when she was
here every week, and I tried tokeep up with that schedule but I
kind of failed with that.
But I did water it.
I have been watering itregularly, but maybe not as
(13:27):
efficiently or as regularly as Ishould have, and I feel bad.
I also feel like there's justsomething else that happened
with it.
I wonder if it's the groundsquirrels that have been just
going crazy and digging holesall over the neighborhood and if
somehow they've gotten in thereand they're eating the roots or
something.
I don't know, not that I wantto place blame on roots or
something.
I don't know, not that I wantto place blame on something else
(13:51):
, because I don't but I havedone so well with so many plants
.
And then there's other plantsand other spaces of the yard
where I've tried so hard so manytimes with different things
that I've purchased.
Maybe it's a sunny spot andI've purchased a plant that is
(14:14):
recommended for full sun.
Time and time again, I've trieddifferent things and nothing
will survive.
And it's not because I'm notwatering every day, it's not
because it got dried out, it'sbecause it died.
And as a as a gardener, assomebody who loves the garden
and loves plants, and just it'sso frustrating to to see that
(14:43):
happen.
So again and again, but I thinkthat that the climate has
changed so much over the yearsand things are so different now,
so I will keep persevering withthe watering of the tree.
(15:03):
And it was interesting becauseas we walked out towards the
front, I walked her out to hercar and we looked again at the
Redwood and we talked a littlebit more about it and you know I
said that there's plenty ofpeople that have come by and
said that they would love tocome and, you know, have me hire
(15:24):
them to feed it, or, you know,feed it every quarter.
And she said, oh, I'm sure theywould.
But she said it doesn't need tobe fed, which made me feel
better.
And she said just remember thatthe same watering techniques go
for the redwood tree as go forthe tangerine tree, that it's
not going to absorb water rightat the base or within six feet
(15:48):
of the base.
It's going to absorb water fromthe lawn area, which I was like
, oh wow, I hadn't reallythought about that.
It didn't immediately translatefor me and it probably wouldn't
have translated for me unlessshe had mentioned that wouldn't
(16:09):
have translated for me unlessshe had mentioned that.
So I was very appreciative ofher advice and we'll see what
happens.
But yeah, there's been timeswhen I have deep watered the
redwood tree, but I think I'vedone it too close to the base.
I did catch on to that at onepoint where I felt like maybe I
(16:32):
should be, because there's acement planter, if you will, a
cement and brick.
It's more ornamental a circlethat goes around the base of the
tree and I would say it goesout maybe five or six feet from
the base maybe closer to fivefeet, so it's a big circle, and
(16:56):
usually what I do is turn thehose on, put it in the circle
and let it go very slowly so itwould deeply water.
But she's right, it wasn'tgetting out to the lawn and so I
started thinking that maybe Ishould be watering the lawn and
the tree would pull up the water.
So that's what I've donesometimes, even though I don't
(17:17):
have much of a lawn, becauseit's a Southern California lawn
and with the dryness and most ofit's just crabgrass anyway.
So I call it a SoCal lawn,because it's really just green
when it rains and then, with theupcoming Halloween and
(17:38):
Christmas decorations, it's notgoing to get consistently
watered, so it's going to bebrown, brown, brown brown.
Anyway, that's what I knowabout arborists and I would say
that it was a very positiveexperience in terms of the
information I got and it'd be areally cool job for somebody to
(18:01):
go around and look at trees anddiagnose trees and talk to
people, and you'd get to goaround and meet a lot of new
people and just look at theirtrees.
And I mean, what better line ofwork would it be to look at
trees all day right, becausetrees are good things.
So I better go turn the hose onnow, but that's all I've got
(18:25):
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Thanks for listening.
I'm Tracy Wallace and these arethe Only Child Diaries.
I don't have much of a lawn because it's a Southern
California lawn.
Welcome to the Only ChildDiaries podcast.
I'm your host, Tracy Wallace.
Have you ever felt like youdidn't receive the how-to
brochure on life, that youdidn't get enough guidance about
major life issues?
So did I.
(00:21):
You don't have to be an onlychild to feel this way.
In my podcast, we'll exploresome of the best ways to better
navigate adulting, while doingso with humor and light.
Welcome everyone to the OnlyChild Diaries podcast.
(00:46):
Today I'm going to talk aboutarborists, my recent experience
with an arborist, a treespecialist.
Now, I've talked about ourredwood tree before, if you're a
regular listener.
We have a huge redwood tree inour front yard that everybody,
(01:09):
everybody seems to want tocomment about.
Usually they say, wow, what atree.
Or gosh, isn't this a beautifultree.
Or gee, that's a big tree.
Or oh, is that a pine tree,that's a big tree, or oh, is
(01:32):
that a pine tree?
Anyway, but in the backyard wehave a tangerine tree and I
remember my dad planting itsometime in the 70s.
It was a long time ago and it'sgrown quite a bit since then.
It's quite large.
It's oh gosh.
I'm looking at it now it'sprobably at least 20 feet wide
(01:56):
at the widest point and it'slet's see, I'm not very good
with dimensions I would say it'sat least 20 feet tall.
It's a big tangerine tree andit's provided quite a bit of
shade over the years to ourpatio area but also quite a bit
of fruit to us.
(02:17):
It's been a great, great treeand my dad loved it, we all
loved it.
Well, I shouldn't talk about itin the past tense yet.
Two years ago we had anincredible crop of tangerines.
Usually they start growing.
(02:37):
Let's see, this is August.
Now they start appearing on thetree, I think in June, maybe,
maybe in June, and they'restarting to be green.
They're about the size ofmarbles now.
So it used to be by Decemberthey would be ready to be picked
, and in recent years, maybe bylate January, february, they've
(03:04):
been ready to be picked, whichis interesting to me that it's
kind of changed over the years.
But two years ago we had justan incredible crop of tangerines
.
I would say we had hundreds, atleast 300 or 400 tangerines on
(03:24):
this tree.
Every branch had some fruit.
It was just incredible.
Also, that summer we had waterrestrictions.
That's when it started, becauseof the drought and because of
(03:48):
other factors.
They were repairing an aqueductin our area and so we weren't
allowed to water outside for twoweeks.
I mean, of course I, you know,save some water from the inside
of the house and I would waterspecific parts and parts of
things, water specific parts andparts of things, but it got
(04:10):
really dry, a lot of things gotreally dry in the yard, and
that's when I started to noticea change in the tree and it was
also incredibly hot.
The September, october time ofyear was incredibly hot.
So all these factors led to menoticing that there were more
(04:31):
leaves falling off.
The leaves would turn yellowand eventually they would drop
and I started to get concerned.
So I talked to a friend of minewho knows an arborist that he's
used and I sent him picturesand I said you know, should,
should your arborist friend comeout?
(04:51):
And he said no, he just says itneeds more water.
Just a blanket statement likethat.
I also took pictures to mylocal nursery and I asked their
their advice and they told methat it was getting too much
water.
So you know, do with that whatyou will right.
(05:12):
Kind of confused, I didcontinue to water it and you
know I noticed that our othertrees and we have five trees on
the property.
We have two in front and we havethree in back I planted an
apricot tree probably four orfive years ago Well, no, three
(05:33):
or four years ago I planted anapricot tree and it's doing fine
.
It doesn't get a lot of waterbut it's doing fine.
We have a crepe myrtle and wehave the tangerine tree in the
back.
We have a crepe myrtle and wehave the tangerine tree in the
back.
So parts of it are stilllooking good.
(05:53):
But this past year I've noticedthat, whereas there's still new
growth, there's still parts ofthe tree branches that are
falling off and it's losing alot more leaves.
So last season it hardly boreany fruit, which made sense,
because the year before it justwent crazy, right.
(06:16):
So now we're heading in towardsthe next fruit season.
It does have fruit on it, butit just doesn't have that many
leaves.
And where I've noticed you canlook at something every day,
right, no matter what it is, youcan look at something every day
.
But then maybe, after you lookat it every day, you don't
(06:40):
really see the changes.
I went out there about a monthago and I looked at it and I was
like, wow, it has lost a lot offoliage and I really started to
get concerned.
Now I've read that tangerinetrees have a shelf life, if you
(07:05):
will, of about 50 years.
I would guess that this tree isat least 50 years old.
I wasn't really sure if I calledin a professional, anything
could be done, and I thoughtabout it and I tried contacting
(07:27):
a few arborists.
Our city has a website wherethey actually list arborists
that they recommend certifiedarborists.
Now there are arborists that goout and consult on trees, go
(07:47):
out and consult on trees, andthen there are arborists who
actually also, in addition toconsulting, actually do work on
trees, like tree cutting, and Iprefer to find somebody who is
just a consultant, who doesn'tnecessarily make their living by
cutting trees, right?
So I found a couple people.
(08:09):
I called a couple people andthe first guy that I actually
called he answered the phone andI told him what I was inquiring
about and he said, well, I cancome out, but tangerine trees
really, once they start to go,there's not much that can be
done, but I can still come outand charge you $300.
(08:31):
And I thought, well, okay, thatdoesn't sound too promising,
right?
So I said, well, I'll thinkabout it.
I mean, I really had no ideawhat these things caused.
Anyway.
This other woman that I foundonline, I sent her a message on
(08:56):
her portal.
I thought maybe it's better tojust send a message instead of
calling somebody cold.
Maybe you get a better reaction.
And at first I thought about itand I thought, you know, this is
just a lot of extra effort fornothing.
But as I thought about it moreI realized that the tree is
really important to us.
It's been in our family forover 50 years probably over 50,
(09:22):
I'm guessing at least 50 and itis important and it's been an
investment.
I asked my husband and ofcourse he said you know,
whatever you want to do, honey.
So I scheduled her.
She came out and very nice youngwoman, of course she looked at
the redwood tree in the frontand remarked on it.
(09:45):
And she came in the backyardand looked at the tangerine tree
, examined the base of it,looked at the branches and the
leaves and what have you, andtook some pictures, did some.
(10:05):
You know, I guess, pondering ifyou will.
And then we sat down and talkedand she was here for about an
hour.
Her fee was less than the othergentleman not a lot less, but
it was less and what wasinteresting was that I always
felt that I could water close tothe base of the tree and that
(10:32):
the tree would receive thatmoisture.
Near the base of the tree arejust very fibrous and they don't
pull up the water in that spacethat you have to water further
(10:53):
out from the base of the tree,which I had never even thought
about before, and she couldn'tfind any source of disease or
pests source of disease or pests.
So she felt like the problemwith the tree is just one of not
enough water and she explainedto me how best to water the tree
(11:16):
, which is, once a week, a deepwatering further away, again
further away from the base.
I think where we're challengedin that is that the tree is in a
very narrow space of dirtbetween the patio, which is
concrete, and the driveway,which is concrete, and I don't
(11:38):
really know how it's managed aswell as it has all these years
with that small space.
But I'm willing to try andfollow her tips for watering and
(11:59):
see what happens.
She said that if I do thiswatering schedule, keep up with
it, that most likely I wouldn'tsee a change until next spring.
So it's not.
It's not an immediateturnaround, which is a little
bit disappointing, but of courseit takes the tree time to
(12:22):
rebound, and she also showed mehow the leaves fold in instead
of being spread out, and shesaid that that's the tree
conserving its resources,conserving its strength and its
water and what have you.
So to me what's interesting isthat I have such a green thumb
(12:44):
in so many ways and with so manydifferent plants, and I've
taken care of I mean, I tookcare of the tangerine tree when
we first had it.
One of my mother's caregivershad told me that she turned on
(13:07):
the hose very slowly and let itdrip on the tree when she was
here every week, and I tried tokeep up with that schedule but I
kind of failed with that.
But I did water it.
I have been watering itregularly, but maybe not as
(13:27):
efficiently or as regularly as Ishould have, and I feel bad.
I also feel like there's justsomething else that happened
with it.
I wonder if it's the groundsquirrels that have been just
going crazy and digging holesall over the neighborhood and if
somehow they've gotten in thereand they're eating the roots or
something.
I don't know, not that I wantto place blame on roots or
something.
I don't know, not that I wantto place blame on something else
(13:51):
, because I don't but I havedone so well with so many plants
.
And then there's other plantsand other spaces of the yard
where I've tried so hard so manytimes with different things
that I've purchased.
Maybe it's a sunny spot andI've purchased a plant that is
(14:14):
recommended for full sun.
Time and time again, I've trieddifferent things and nothing
will survive.
And it's not because I'm notwatering every day, it's not
because it got dried out, it'sbecause it died.
And as a as a gardener, assomebody who loves the garden
and loves plants, and just it'sso frustrating to to see that
(14:43):
happen.
So again and again, but I thinkthat that the climate has
changed so much over the yearsand things are so different now,
so I will keep persevering withthe watering of the tree.
(15:03):
And it was interesting becauseas we walked out towards the
front, I walked her out to hercar and we looked again at the
Redwood and we talked a littlebit more about it and you know I
said that there's plenty ofpeople that have come by and
said that they would love tocome and, you know, have me hire
(15:24):
them to feed it, or, you know,feed it every quarter.
And she said, oh, I'm sure theywould.
But she said it doesn't need tobe fed, which made me feel
better.
And she said just remember thatthe same watering techniques go
for the redwood tree as go forthe tangerine tree, that it's
not going to absorb water rightat the base or within six feet
(15:48):
of the base.
It's going to absorb water fromthe lawn area, which I was like
, oh wow, I hadn't reallythought about that.
It didn't immediately translatefor me and it probably wouldn't
have translated for me unlessshe had mentioned that wouldn't
(16:09):
have translated for me unlessshe had mentioned that.
So I was very appreciative ofher advice and we'll see what
happens.
But yeah, there's been timeswhen I have deep watered the
redwood tree, but I think I'vedone it too close to the base.
I did catch on to that at onepoint where I felt like maybe I
(16:32):
should be, because there's acement planter, if you will, a
cement and brick.
It's more ornamental a circlethat goes around the base of the
tree and I would say it goesout maybe five or six feet from
the base maybe closer to fivefeet, so it's a big circle, and
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usually what I do is turn thehose on, put it in the circle
and let it go very slowly so itwould deeply water.
But she's right, it wasn'tgetting out to the lawn and so I
started thinking that maybe Ishould be watering the lawn and
the tree would pull up the water.
So that's what I've donesometimes, even though I don't
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have much of a lawn, becauseit's a Southern California lawn
and with the dryness and most ofit's just crabgrass anyway.
So I call it a SoCal lawn,because it's really just green
when it rains and then, with theupcoming Halloween and
(17:38):
Christmas decorations, it's notgoing to get consistently
watered, so it's going to bebrown, brown, brown brown.
Anyway, that's what I knowabout arborists and I would say
that it was a very positiveexperience in terms of the
information I got and it'd be areally cool job for somebody to
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go around and look at trees anddiagnose trees and talk to
people, and you'd get to goaround and meet a lot of new
people and just look at theirtrees.
And I mean, what better line ofwork would it be to look at
trees all day right, becausetrees are good things.
So I better go turn the hose onnow, but that's all I've got
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for today.
Next week we'll tackle anothertopic together.
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