Looks like you lost a little weight, Brad? Hope and pray for her to get better! I think what my neighbour did was cut the bottoms of the trees and this spring they didn't bloom any. Didn't know you could kill a tree by cutting it's skin on the main trunk.
Are you saying I was fat before? :D I might have lost a little. Yeah I didn't want to have to cut the trees back, but they were suffering so much disease that it was about the only option. I think they will be ok though at least for a while.