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Can you help me identify and save this sick tree?
I live in East Scotland and have a beautiful but unidentified tree that is
about 5m tall and has lovely pink and white new leaves (or maybe bracts?) at this time of year. Last year it developed a disease of some sort which causes the shoots to die back from the tip, going black and splitting. Cutting out all the diseased parts as they developed last year didn't help. There are pictures at http://www.rosebud.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/ any help identifying the tree and or the disease would be very much appreciated TIA Steve --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.491 / Virus Database: 290 - Release Date: 18/06/2003 |
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Can you help me identify and save this sick tree?
"Steve" wrote in message ... I live in East Scotland and have a beautiful but unidentified tree that is about 5m tall and has lovely pink and white new leaves (or maybe bracts?) at this time of year. Last year it developed a disease of some sort which causes the shoots to die back from the tip, going black and splitting. Cutting out all the diseased parts as they developed last year didn't help. There are pictures at http://www.rosebud.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/ any help identifying the tree and or the disease would be very much appreciated TIA Steve We have one of these in our garden and I believe it is called "the handkerchief tree" although I cannot be certain. I have also been told that if you cut it back it encourages the leaves to have lots of lovely colours. It is a lovely tree, but is big so we tend to cut it to keep it at about 7 feet tall cos we only have a small garden. Saffy. |
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Can you help me identify and save this sick tree?
"Saffy" wrote in message ... "Steve" wrote in message ... I live in East Scotland and have a beautiful but unidentified tree that is about 5m tall and has lovely pink and white new leaves (or maybe bracts?) at this time of year. Last year it developed a disease of some sort which causes the shoots to die back from the tip, going black and splitting. Cutting out all the diseased parts as they developed last year didn't help. There are pictures at http://www.rosebud.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/ any help identifying the tree and or the disease would be very much appreciated TIA Steve We have one of these in our garden and I believe it is called "the handkerchief tree" although I cannot be certain. I have also been told that if you cut it back it encourages the leaves to have lots of lovely colours. It is a lovely tree, but is big so we tend to cut it to keep it at about 7 feet tall cos we only have a small garden. Saffy. Sorry to reply to my own post, but having searched the internet I now disagree with what I have been told in the past. It is not a handkerchief tree. I have also been told it is a type of Poplar which makes sense as it has pretty invasive roots. Saffy |
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Can you help me identify and save this sick tree?
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from "Steve" contains these words: I live in East Scotland and have a beautiful but unidentified tree that is about 5m tall and has lovely pink and white new leaves (or maybe bracts?) at this time of year. Last year it developed a disease of some sort which causes the shoots to die back from the tip, going black and splitting. Cutting out all the diseased parts as they developed last year didn't help. There are pictures at http://www.rosebud.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/ any help identifying the tree and or the disease would be very much appreciated TIA Steve I think your tree might be Populus x candicans 'Aurora' but I'm afraid I don't know what the disease is. Janet G |
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Can you help me identify and save this sick tree?
"Steve" wrote in message ... I live in East Scotland and have a beautiful but unidentified tree that is about 5m tall and has lovely pink and white new leaves (or maybe bracts?) at this time of year. Last year it developed a disease of some sort which causes the shoots to die back from the tip, going black and splitting. Cutting out all the diseased parts as they developed last year didn't help. There are pictures at http://www.rosebud.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/ any help identifying the tree and or the disease would be very much appreciated TIA Steve Hi Steve, I've had this tree...populus canadensis Aurea...variagated poplar...in my front garden for seven years now, in order to keep it's wonderful colour it needs to be kept at a height of between 6 - 8 ft. We keep ours around the 7 mark. We had a very similar problem with ours late last summer and again early this year we found it starting again, we also found it was infested with caterpillars. We dealt with the caterpillar problem by spraying with syndol and two weeks ago took out the secateurs and gave it a good pruning, we literally freed up the inside of the tree, cutting out any branches that were crossing each other, we left the outer branches so as to keep its shape. Essentially we thinned the inside parts to allow lots of light and air in. When all that was done we gave it a good feed with nettle fertiliser. After only two weeks the tree has lots and lots of new shoots, the variagation is absolutely beautiful, pink, peach, white, green and yellow and the catterpillars are gone. We're very pleased with the job. This was all done *in the hopes* it was the right way of going about the problem, we were basically working on instinct, but it certainly seems to have made a marked difference to the tree so it's worked for us and it wasn't caker as we originally thought. This snippett from GQT may help http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/gqt/fshe...sheetsq7.shtml HTH -- Shan (Ireland) http://ukdiscus.com/main.htm --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.491 / Virus Database: 290 - Release Date: 18/06/2003 |
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