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Can anyone suggest what's wrong with my young tree?
It produced new foliage earlier this year but this has failed to grow to normal sized leaves. It's like someone waved a magic wand over it and stopped it from maturing! Do I dig it up or give it another chance? My soil is heavy clay. |
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"avc" wrote Can anyone suggest what's wrong with my young tree? It produced new foliage earlier this year but this has failed to grow to normal sized leaves. It's like someone waved a magic wand over it and stopped it from maturing! Do I dig it up or give it another chance? My soil is heavy clay. Beech trees are suffering in this heat/dry we have had around here for weeks and weeks so if it's like that where you live that's why your tree isn't doing well. The Savill Garden have talked about removing theirs and replacing them. -- Regards Bob Hobden 17mls W. of London.UK |
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exceptionally good weather this summer so I'll continue to water my tree. |
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Bob Hobden wrote: "avc" wrote Can anyone suggest what's wrong with my young tree? It produced new foliage earlier this year but this has failed to grow to normal sized leaves. It's like someone waved a magic wand over it and stopped it from maturing! Do I dig it up or give it another chance? My soil is heavy clay. Beech trees are suffering in this heat/dry we have had around here for weeks and weeks so if it's like that where you live that's why your tree isn't doing well. The Savill Garden have talked about removing theirs and replacing them. Yes. You say it's a young tree, so it hasn't been planted for very long. Depending on soil and weather, you probably need to water it during the first couple of years, or maybe more, while it's getting its roots out. How much at a time depends on the soil's capacity and how much it's lost, but at a pure guess, that tree probably wants something like five gallons per square yard every week: in weather like this, you'd have to provide all of that yourself. If the ground's dried out, you may need to give it much more to start off with, to get things back to normal. A good much after watering will help a lot. -- Mike. |
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Thank you all - I'll be more rigorous in my watering then! |
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In article , avc writes: | | Thank you all - I'll be more rigorous in my watering then! What nobody seems to have said is that beech trees don't like heavy clay; it will probably never thrive. Sorry, but .... Regards, Nick Maclaren. |
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