My Green Ash (45 gallons), from Bill Bownds Nursery, was planted in January 2014, and has been one of my fastest growing trees.
Ash trees are dioecious and this one is a male, as evidenced by the green flowers in spring. In early May 2017, the Green Ash was devastated as it leafed out. Not only did the new leaves have some kind of fungus which caused the leaves to distort as they emerged, but many of the leaves had also been eaten to the veins by small green / yellow / brown caterpillars, the identity of which remains a mystery (not in my guidebook of 400 caterpillar species in North America). I sprayed with imidacloprid and the tree was vigorous enough to recover.
In mid-March 2019 the Green Ash flowered more prolifically than in previous years - for the first time, the lowest branch had flowers, and plenty of them, so I could get some close-up photos.
The Green Ash did fine in 2019, despite suffering quite severely from defoliation in the spring by forest-tent caterpillars, which also completely defoliated the Green Ash trees in nearby Brazos Bend State Park.
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Green Ash (early July 2021)
Green Ash (early July 2020)
Green Ash (end of June 2019)
Green Ash (July 2018)
Green Ash (July 2017)
Green Ash (July 2016)
Green Ash (2014)
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