On Sun, 8 May 2011 01:12:26 +0100, "Christina Websell"
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"Pam Moore" wrote in message
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On Sat, 7 May 2011 00:20:17 -0700 (PDT), harry
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On May 6, 10:03 pm, "Christina Websell"
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"Charlie2" wrote in message

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Dry curling leaves on bay tree which has done well for last two years
now seems to be dying off. Not like ones I've seen in garden centres
one
main trunk mine has five stems from root 4 curled drying leaves, the
5th
still fresh and green but may go say way. Can't see any indication of
bug attack. In 18" pot and reasoably sheltered positon....could it be
pot bound or would it be lack of neutrients? At a guesse it is about
4yrs old.
Thanks in anticipation.

it needs watering regularly.

Mine was a tree twenty odd feet high and in the ground not a pot.
Must have been thirty or forty years old. The trunk was 18" diameter
at the bottom. But stone dead,no sign of regrowth.

Monty had a sad, frost-stricken bay on GW last night. I think he said
cut back the dead stuff and it will regrow.
Thats what I did with mine after last winter's snow. Now it needs
doing again.


i was very afraid about my 3 y o bay which stood out all winter in a pot, i
was sure it would be a gonna but it seems fine, unlike my aunt's 20 yo one
which is planted into the garden and has suffered badly, most of the leaves
of that are brownish.

I've got a bay that I kept pruning so it developed as a bush rather
than a tree - about 6 feet tall and 5 in diameter. After winter
die-back, in late March I ruthlessly (and quite carelessly) just went
at it with hedge trimmer and lopper and got it back to about 3 feet
tall and wide. I treated it to a decent mulch and feed. There's still
some dead growth which I'll take out probably early June with
secateurs. It's now covered in new shoots, even growing from what I
would have called "dead wood" in the centre, which is now open to the
sky. In my case, the "ruthless treatment" has worked both quickly and
well.