I'm pretty new to gardening and this is my first post here. I hope someone
can help. Several of my plants are having problems. The leaves are turning
purple for some reason. Here is a link to 2 dogwoods I have recently
planted, but other plants are having the same problem.
http://www.2dplanet.com/dogwoods.htm

Soil Type: Mostly clay
Planted as instructed.
Liquid Root stimulator used at first watering.

The dogwoods also seem to be wilting. Too much water? Not enough? I watered
at first planting and one week later. (We have had a ton of rain in the past
month, so I didn't want to water too much.) I sprayed them with a fungicide
today thinking they may have dogwood anthracnose.

Hope someone can help me out.
Thanks.

Stop being so paranoid.

There is nothing wrong with your plants.

What are you going to do when the leaves turn colors and finally drop in the
autumn?
Have a stroke?


TFSeven wrote in message
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I'm pretty new to gardening and this is my first post here. I hope someone
can help. Several of my plants are having problems. The leaves are turning
purple for some reason. Here is a link to 2 dogwoods I have recently
planted, but other plants are having the same problem.
http://www.2dplanet.com/dogwoods.htm

Soil Type: Mostly clay
Planted as instructed.
Liquid Root stimulator used at first watering.

The dogwoods also seem to be wilting. Too much water? Not enough? I
watered
at first planting and one week later. (We have had a ton of rain in the
past
month, so I didn't want to water too much.) I sprayed them with a
fungicide
today thinking they may have dogwood anthracnose.

Hope someone can help me out.
Thanks.

TFSeven wrote:
I'm pretty new to gardening and this is my first post here. I hope someone
can help. Several of my plants are having problems. The leaves are turning
purple for some reason. Here is a link to 2 dogwoods I have recently
planted, but other plants are having the same problem.

I am not new to gardening but am new to this group.

If you are in the southern hemisphere then winter is fast approaching
and the color change is quite appropriate :} If not, then I have
nothing to offer except the knowledge that I came here looking for
sympathy because my 20 year old dogwood recently succumbed to what
appears in the stump to be some sort of fungus/rot :{

It was in a magnificent location and was thriving during its first 18
years and then had the top half's leaves come out about half normal
size. Perhaps a mimosa would be happier in this location and possibly
not susceptible to this dogwood infection.

I came here looking for
sympathy because my 20 year old dogwood recently succumbed to what
appears in the stump to be some sort of fungus/rot :{

This dogwood fungus is devistating dogwoods everywhere, the location didn't
have anything to do with it. Around here they have begun selling pink dogwoods
that are resistant to this disease. I had several large dogwoods that died.
Many of them were more than 40 years old and as much as 25 feet tall, really
sad and it's hard to replace such large trees. Dogwood does make great fire
place logs ;-( the wood is heavy and burns a long time.

moon
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