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Sacha[_1_] · 03-09-2006, 11:03 AM posted to uk.rec.gardening

On 3/9/06 10:27, in article , "Bob Hobden"
wrote:

How are your local Horse Chestnut Trees? All those around here seem to be
under great stress with all leaves turning brown, dying and falling off.
They have been like it for some weeks and do look a sorry sight.
It's much too early for autumn yet so it must be the dry year we have had
yet it's now wet so a strange situation and I wonder how many will be alive
next spring if we get another dry winter.

Bob, did I imagine this, or did I read somewhere that these trees are
subject to some ne and rather alarming disease? I hope very much that this
isn't what's affecting the trees near you and I would imagine that the dry
weather certainly has given them a hard time. Of course, on that note we
had lashing rain and wind yesterday and more fine rain this morning but as I
write, the sun is coming out again.

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Sacha
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South Devon
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