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Bob Hobden · 03-09-2006, 04:56 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening

"Sacha" wrote in message
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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.

Yes, Bleeding Canker, I thought of that but I haven't noticed any bleeding
from any of the trees near here, perhaps I'll have to get up close and
personal with them. I do hope it's not that disease because I don't know of
a Horse Chestnut around here that isn't showing the browning of the leaves
etc. we could lose the lot and they are some of our biggest trees.

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Regards
Bob H
17mls W. of London.UK