The phrase "ailing tree" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a tree that is unhealthy or in poor condition, often due to disease or environmental factors.
Example: "The gardener was concerned about the ailing tree in the backyard, as its leaves were turning brown and falling off."
Alternatives: "sick tree" or "unhealthy tree."
(More recently, she reports, the ailing tree recovered, stopped leaking sap and hence became less of a moth magnet).
Now the ailing tree is braced by a structural support and is expected to remain standing for up to 15 years.
Ten saplings that originated from that stately but seriously ailing tree are to be brought here later this year for distribution by the center, a nonprofit organization with an office on the fifth floor of 38 Crosby Street.
"Is it wiser to spend more on this ailing tree or to replace it with a young tree better suited to the surroundings?" The tree society, a nonprofit group, backs a number of efforts to maintain or replace ailing trees throughout the city, not just in the mansion district.
NEWARK - LIKE limbs pared from an ailing tree, the trolley branches are long gone, and what is left of this city's 71-year-old subway system is a 4.3-mile main line that runs from Penn Station to neighboring Bloomfield to the north.
The 44 ailing trees at either end of the plaza will be replaced with more than twice that number.
One pond has doubled in size, and having to lose some ailing trees, she is busy creating a copse with native planting.
The New York City parks department has been the subject of lawsuits after several injuries and deaths caused by falling trees and limbs in recent years for failing to remove ailing trees.
NEWARK — During a recent tour of Military Park on a frigid afternoon here, Daniel A. Biederman waved his arm at the derelict plaza before him, with its once-proud statuary gazing out at ailing trees and graffiti-covered garbage bins.
A very tall, ailing fir tree once stood in front of mine.
Among other things, the group encourages planting trees on private property to replace ailing municipal trees planted too close to city streets.
