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Old 25-06-2008, 03:17 PM
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Originally Posted by Henley Birder View Post
Hi all,

I moved to my current house at the beginning of this year. There are a couple of trees in the garden, but as we have gone through spring one of them has failed to grow any leaves. It did have a small sprout at the end of one branch right at the beginning of spring but this soon died. More recently it has started to sprout growths on the trunk, but not on any of the existing branches. Here are links to some pics (you may need to scroll down a little):

http://www.picoodle.com/view.php?img....jpg&srv=img26
http://www.picoodle.com/view.php?img....jpg&srv=img28
http://www.picoodle.com/view.php?img....jpg&srv=img33

I have two questions: what is likely to be wrong with it, and what do I need to do about it? I am completely inexperienced at gardening.

Thanks for your help.

Looks like a prunus of some kind, probably an almond (certainly there seem to be a couple on the branches in photo #1). If so, they are best pruned in summer. If one of them has virtually no leaves, it possibly nearly drowned last summer, and to be honest you will be wiser to remove it altogether and replace it.