Detective Dendro

An assertive homeowner hopes his avocados will be the talk of the town, but the trees refuse to bear fruit. Detective Dendro is summoned to fix the problem. Will the solution be easy? (Original story by James Komen) (A,Bs)

Dendro and Codit are called to West Los Angeles by a building manager charged with tending to eight declining olive trees that are the key feature of a 41st floor outdoor restaurant. Is it Xylella fastidiosa or something else? Will Dendro and Codit have a solution in The Case of the Rooftop Restaurant? (Original story by James Komen) (A,M,Bp)

Dendro and Codit get a late Friday afternoon request. A new homeowner wants to know why his beautiful oak tree that was in pristine condition 6 months ago is now nearly dead. Dendro and Codit are on the case to figure out what caused the decline! (Original story by James Komen) (A,M,Bm)

Dendro has been busy since the storm season started. For this case, Dendro and Codit investigate why a large oak tree failed and fell across a house. It’s the Case of the Quercus Calamity! (Original story by James Komen)(A,M,Bs)

Dendro finds himself once again on the hunt. In beautiful Oceanside, California, an allée of date palms are yellowing. It’s the Case of the Deficient Palms. (Original story by James Komen and Don Hodel)(A,T,M,L,Bs)

Dendro and Codit are fresh off a week in D.C. at the annual ISA Conference and Trade Show when presented with a unique challenge; a pest targeting native as well as non-native trees, and even inanimate objects in the vicinity! It’s the Case of the Mysterious Sugar Maple. (Original story by Cláudia Coleoni)(A,M,Bs)

Dendro and Codit are called out to assess a stand of trees once featured on the silver screen and now suffering from bad pruning. Will it be an Oscar moment for the two arborists, or just rotten tomatoes in the Case of the Movie Star Trees. (Original story by James Komen)(A,M,Bm)

Dendro and Codit trade the end of winter in North America for a trip south of the equator to help diagnose a blight spreading through the region’s favored ficus’. Can they spot the cause before fica ficus becomes a Brazilian memory? It’s the Case of the Defiant Ficus (Original story by Cláudia Coleoni)(A,M,Bp)

Dendro and Codit take on a case that sounds like something from the “X-Files”; a bright orange blob of tentacles suddenly appearing on healthy trees in The Case of Justine’s Junipers (Original story by Sharon Lilly)(A,M,Bm)

Dendro and Codit respond to distressed client blaming a destroyed concrete patio on a nearby redwood. Will the tree have to come out? Is a past drainage problem really to blame, will Codit ever finish washing Dendro’s car? These answers and more in The Case of the Redwood Roots. (Original story by James Komen) (A,M,Bp)

Dendro and Codit travel across Europe and end up helping diagnose an aging giant in Sweden in the case of the Eloquent Elephant (A,M,Bm)

Dendro and Codit are across the pond at the UK’s Arboricultural Association’s annual conference when duty calls; a fungi is attacking London Plane trees, and local folks are up in arms. Can Dendro’s UK cohorts calm the masses and save the trees? It’s the case of the Plane Plan!(Original story by Sharon Lilly)(A,M,Bm)

Codit is left minding the phone on a trip to California, when a call puts him between a palm tree in a compromised planting box and an asphalt target zone. Will the intrepid side-kick figure it out? Will Dendro show up to save the day? Find out in the case of the palm’s perilous predicament.(Original story by Ellyn Shea)(A,M,Bm)

Dendro receives a letter from a veteran French arborist shedding light on a problem that has plagued his country for the better part of the last half century, and had interrupted a previous vacation for the deciduous duo. It’s the case of the Ailing Avenues, Redux. (Original story by Francis Maire)(A, M, Bm)

Our intrepid interrogator of all things trees saddles up his bike to help a damsel in distress. A recent southern Belle transplant is mourning the sudden loss of a beloved pine tree. What could have caused the sudden decline? Join Detective Dendro in the Case of the Perishing Pine. (A,M,T,L,Bs)

Dendro and Codit head to the continent for some French onion soup and bird watching, but find themselves examining sycamore trees along a French canal. The beautifully pollarded specimens are showing signs of stress far beyond the dry conditions of the past summer. It’s a historical brain teaser in the case of the ailing avenues. (A,M,Bm)

The forest Codit grew up with is under attack! Is it the neighbor’s relentlessly tapping the maples for syrup? A nearby highway poisoning the trees? Can Detective Dendro solve the mystery in The Case of the Lamentable Maples?( (A, M, Bs)

Detective Dendro steps into a home owners association dispute in an attempt to identify the source of a rouge root pushing up patios. Is the street tree destined for the mulch pile? Find out in the Case of the Plane Truth. (A,M,Bp)

Detective Dendro takes a break from watching the best tree climbers at the ITCC competition, to find himself and Codit running in circles, trying to figure out what’s causing random die-back in an otherwise healthy live oak. Will the lab have the answer? Or will this mystery remain unsolved, stumping the great Dendro himself!

On the way to the annual ISA conference and Trade Show Detective Dendro and Codit take a side trip to investigate an unknown culprit selectively targeting individual trees in a stand of pines. Will the intrepid investigators figure it out before more trees succumb? It’s the case of the peculiar pines! (A,U,T,M,L,Bs)