On 14/07/2013 15:40, Chris Hogg wrote:
On Sun, 14 Jul 2013 15:07:12 +0200, Contessa
wrote:


About a month ago I planted two of these. Both now seem dead as the
leaves are brown. Any hope or treatment for them?

IME ceanothus are not long-lived,

Not IME. They may not make 100, but 30 years shouldn't be beyond them.
I had C.'Zanzibar' going for 14 years, through some of the hottest
summers and coldest winters, and it also survived being pulled over and
half out of the ground by wet snow. As it's variegated, it might
possibly be considered weaker than a normal ceanothus. When I moved and
left it behind it was about 4 metres high and 3 across.

And it is not unusual to see 5 - 6m or even higher bushes is some of the
bigger NGS (and other) gardens. Although, of course, it would depend
where you are. I don't know how well they'd get on in the colder areas
of the UK.

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Jeff