["Blessed"... that seems a bit much to him, but it'd be rude to argue with her (and a little pointless), so instead he just lets the comment slide by, a little awkwardly....]

I suspect that this place attempts to cause as much trouble as possible. In that case, the trees may have been perfectly normal when you inspected it, or acted as though they were.

[so troublesome...]

It is no fault of yours.