Bob Hobden wrote:
"avc" wrote

Can anyone suggest what's wrong with my young tree?
It produced new foliage earlier this year but this has failed to grow
to normal sized leaves. It's like someone waved a magic wand over it
and stopped it from maturing! Do I dig it up or give it another chance?
My soil is heavy clay.


Beech trees are suffering in this heat/dry we have had around here for weeks
and weeks so if it's like that where you live that's why your tree isn't
doing well. The Savill Garden have talked about removing theirs and
replacing them.

Yes. You say it's a young tree, so it hasn't been planted for very
long. Depending on soil and weather, you probably need to water it
during the first couple of years, or maybe more, while it's getting its
roots out. How much at a time depends on the soil's capacity and how
much it's lost, but at a pure guess, that tree probably wants something
like five gallons per square yard every week: in weather like this,
you'd have to provide all of that yourself. If the ground's dried out,
you may need to give it much more to start off with, to get things back
to normal. A good much after watering will help a lot.

--
Mike.