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Slow conifers
I have a border with about 10 small (2ft) conifers, a very light green
colour, very fluffy in appearance, sorry I don't know the name but they are really attractive. My problem is thus, about a couple of months back someone decided to up root 3 of them and throw them down the road, within a few hours they were re planted, fed watered and I hoped that they would recover. They seem to be dying now and rather than wait for them to die totally leaving gaps in the row am I better to buy some more and replace them, or will they come back next year? or maybe pick up again this year, they are going brown from the top down quite uniformed. One of the bushes had about the top 6 inches snapped off and this one is also browning. Any advise please. Mike --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.504 / Virus Database: 302 - Release Date: 24/07/03 |
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Slow conifers
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from "Mike Fitz" contains these words: I have a border with about 10 small (2ft) conifers, a very light green colour, very fluffy in appearance, sorry I don't know the name but they are really attractive. My problem is thus, about a couple of months back someone decided to up root 3 of them and throw them down the road, within a few hours they were re planted, fed watered and I hoped that they would recover. They seem to be dying now and rather than wait for them to die totally leaving gaps in the row am I better to buy some more and replace them, or will they come back next year? or maybe pick up again this year, they are going brown from the top down quite uniformed. One of the bushes had about the top 6 inches snapped off and this one is also browning. Any advise please. Mike I would be very surprised if they recovered. In my experience, once conifers begin to go brown, they keep going. Autumn would be a good time to plant some new ones so that they can get their roots down for the next growing season. This would give you another couple of months to satisfy yourself that they're not going to recover. Could they be Cupressus macrocarpa? It tends to have quite fluffy fresh foliage - but there are forms of Chamaecyparis etc that they could also be. Janet G |
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