Advice on Laurels
My first post to this group, I hope you can help - it's good to see it is
busy Last couple of years I have been trying to grow a laurel hedge - roughly 10 trees (£6.99 ea. , so I started small) - Of the 10, probably 6 have taken well, whilst the others I find are yellowing, and although there are new shoots/leaves on them, their growth rate has been minimal.. Are they sick and need replacing or have I managed to mix some dwarf laurels (if these exist) with the standard laurels? Any help appreciated..thanks. |
Advice on Laurels
It may well be that they are suffering from lack of water.
Gently dig around one of the sickly ones to see whether the roots have grown out from the original ball. At the same time you will be able to establish whether it is suffering from drought. If it is lack of moisture, make sure that each shrub is watered thoroughly and that means a slow trickle for a considerable time as it is difficult to penetrate a compacted rootball. Regards, Emrys Davies. "LongYP" wrote in message ... My first post to this group, I hope you can help - it's good to see it is busy Last couple of years I have been trying to grow a laurel hedge - roughly 10 trees (£6.99 ea. , so I started small) - Of the 10, probably 6 have taken well, whilst the others I find are yellowing, and although there are new shoots/leaves on them, their growth rate has been minimal.. Are they sick and need replacing or have I managed to mix some dwarf laurels (if these exist) with the standard laurels? Any help appreciated..thanks. |
Advice on Laurels
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Advice on Laurels
"LongYP" wrote in message ... My first post to this group, I hope you can help - it's good to see it is busy Last couple of years I have been trying to grow a laurel hedge - roughly 10 trees (£6.99 ea. , so I started small) - Of the 10, probably 6 have taken well, whilst the others I find are yellowing, and although there are new shoots/leaves on them, their growth rate has been minimal.. Are they sick and need replacing or have I managed to mix some dwarf laurels (if these exist) with the standard laurels? Any help appreciated..thanks. Might be nitrogen deficiency. You could try feeding it. Jenny |
Advice on Laurels
laurel are often attacked by vine weevil. The vine weevil grubs eat the roots over the winter, often causing the symptons you descibe. The grubs hatch out during the spring this allows the roots to recover enough to keep the plant alive but stop it growing away strongly. The only visible sign during the summer are distinctive notching of the leaves. You would think they would attack all the plants at once but we often find one plant in a row can be attacked. If you dig round the base of the worst plant you might still find some of the grubs - white about half to one inch.
we find biological control (nematodes) works extremely well Quote:
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