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Conifers going brown...help!
About 2 months ago i noticed one of our conifer hedges was starting to turn brown, i trimmed it in March but not too close. Could it have a disease and if so could it be treated to stem the problem? Pic attached
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In future confine your conifer trimming to May to September. It is normal to do it once a year about now. |
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Conifers going brown...help!
On Aug 26, 2:39*pm, echinosum
wrote: Daveconifer;934063 Wrote: About 2 months ago i noticed one of our conifer hedges was starting to turn brown, i trimmed it in March but not too close. Could it have a disease and if so could it be treated to stem the problem? Pic attached Probably the problem is that you trimmed it in March, and a bit of frost got in to the cut bits and caused the tips to die back. But it takes a very long time for dead conifer to turn brown so you only just noticed. Basically the brown bits will probably stay brown, because new growth does not occur when there is no living fronds on a branch. *Basically what you do in such a case is take bits of the adjacent living bits and twine them into the dead areas, a few inches back from the surface, so that you can trim them in future without cutting them off. Over time they will extend can become the green for those dead areas, and might eventually totally cover it. In future confine your conifer trimming to May to September. It is normal to do it once a year about now. +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ -- echinosum I do wonder if it's dry at the roots. with the willow behind, if you havn't been geting much rain that could be causing problems. |
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Conifers going brown...help!
On Fri, 26 Aug 2011 10:47:42 -0700 (PDT), Dave Hill
wrote: On Aug 26, 2:39*pm, echinosum wrote: Daveconifer;934063 Wrote: About 2 months ago i noticed one of our conifer hedges was starting to turn brown, i trimmed it in March but not too close. Could it have a disease and if so could it be treated to stem the problem? Pic attached Probably the problem is that you trimmed it in March, and a bit of frost got in to the cut bits and caused the tips to die back. But it takes a very long time for dead conifer to turn brown so you only just noticed. Basically the brown bits will probably stay brown, because new growth does not occur when there is no living fronds on a branch. *Basically what you do in such a case is take bits of the adjacent living bits and twine them into the dead areas, a few inches back from the surface, so that you can trim them in future without cutting them off. Over time they will extend can become the green for those dead areas, and might eventually totally cover it. In future confine your conifer trimming to May to September. It is normal to do it once a year about now. +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ -- echinosum I do wonder if it's dry at the roots. with the willow behind, if you havn't been geting much rain that could be causing problems. It looks like a leylandii hedge. Whilst not ruling out frost damage, somehow it doesn't look right for that - it's too confined an area though I think there are areas either side of the main "damage" beginning to turn. If it were a watering problem, I'd again have thought the damage would be more widespread, particularly nearer to the willow behind and would be affecting the top of the trees more. Bug damage would normally start lower down and work up. But the greatest progress in the browning seems to be about the middle of the hedge height. So a bit of a conundrum. Any chance of getting some close up photos, say of centre of the damaged area and one or two around the periphery which are just starting to change colour? Cheers Jake ============================================== Gardening at the dry end (east) of Swansea Bay in between reading anything by JRR Tolkien. www.rivendell.org.uk |
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Conifers going brown...help!
On 26/08/2011 19:27, Jake wrote:
On Fri, 26 Aug 2011 10:47:42 -0700 (PDT), Dave Hill wrote: On Aug 26, 2:39 pm, wrote: Daveconifer;934063 Wrote: About 2 months ago i noticed one of our conifer hedges was starting to turn brown, i trimmed it in March but not too close. Could it have a disease and if so could it be treated to stem the problem? Pic attached Probably the problem is that you trimmed it in March, and a bit of frost got in to the cut bits and caused the tips to die back. But it takes a very long time for dead conifer to turn brown so you only just noticed. Basically the brown bits will probably stay brown, because new growth does not occur when there is no living fronds on a branch. Basically what you do in such a case is take bits of the adjacent living bits and twine them into the dead areas, a few inches back from the surface, so that you can trim them in future without cutting them off. Over time they will extend can become the green for those dead areas, and might eventually totally cover it. In future confine your conifer trimming to May to September. It is normal to do it once a year about now. +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ -- echinosum I do wonder if it's dry at the roots. with the willow behind, if you havn't been geting much rain that could be causing problems. It looks like a leylandii hedge. Whilst not ruling out frost damage, somehow it doesn't look right for that - it's too confined an area though I think there are areas either side of the main "damage" beginning to turn. If it were a watering problem, I'd again have thought the damage would be more widespread, particularly nearer to the willow behind and would be affecting the top of the trees more. Bug damage would normally start lower down and work up. But the greatest progress in the browning seems to be about the middle of the hedge height. So a bit of a conundrum. Any chance of getting some close up photos, say of centre of the damaged area and one or two around the periphery which are just starting to change colour? Cheers Jake ============================================== Gardening at the dry end (east) of Swansea Bay in between reading anything by JRR Tolkien. www.rivendell.org.uk I'm inclined to think it's Phytophthora damage, which affects the roots and eventually the entire tree, ususally resulting in death. It is encouraged by warm, damp conditions but often becomes really noticeable during a period of drought when the tree is under stress. I don't think there's a lot you can do about it now. If you'd caught it earlier, it might have been improved by feeding and mulching but only in so much as that would have strengthened the tree and helped it hold the pathogen at bay. I hate to say it because that's a beautiful hedge, but I think you should prepare yourself to lose that tree :~(. You may feel it's worth a chat with a good tree surgeon (or the RHS if you're a member), just in case there is a treatment available to the professional which is not (to my knowledge) available to the amateur gardener. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news. -- Spider from high ground in SE London gardening on clay |
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