My acer is looking distinctly poorly. It looks as if the leaves are being
tunnelled, and some are curling up and turning brown. I've put a couple of
photo here -

http://ourallotment.mysite.freeserve.com/page8.html


Any ideas what's wrong, and what if anything I can do about it?
Any advice appreciated.

Steve

'Steve',

It may be leaf scorch damage as described in these sites, although the
damage to your plants is not very similar at all to the images which are
shown.

Check for aphids on the underside of the leaves. Mine are often covered
with them at about this time of the year.

http://www.rhs.org.uk/advice/profile...cer_scorch.asp

http://muextension.missouri.edu/xplo...ort/g06881.htm

Regards,
Emrys Davies.





"shazzbat" wrote in message
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My acer is looking distinctly poorly. It looks as if the leaves are
being
tunnelled, and some are curling up and turning brown. I've put a
couple of
photo here -

http://ourallotment.mysite.freeserve.com/page8.html


Any ideas what's wrong, and what if anything I can do about it?
Any advice appreciated.

Steve

"shazzbat" wrote in message
...
My acer is looking distinctly poorly. It looks as if the leaves are being
tunnelled, and some are curling up and turning brown. I've put a couple of
photo here -

http://ourallotment.mysite.freeserve.com/page8.html


Any ideas what's wrong, and what if anything I can do about it?
Any advice appreciated.

Steve

Hi Steve,
Thats what mine looked like last year, it seems I had it planted in the
wrong place. I had it in my front garden which is East facing ( and also
gets a nasty blast from the north winds when they blow)so it got a blast of
sun really early in the morning and with the dew on the leaves they
literally burned. It's in a container now in the back garden in a spot where
the sun doesn't reach it until about midday and it's looking very healthy.
Also, the container is filled with homemade compost, so maybe this is
helping it too, whatever it is, the compost or the aspect it's certainly a
lot healthier looking than I've ever seen it.

HTH
Shannie

"shannie" wrote in message
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"shazzbat" wrote in message
...
My acer is looking distinctly poorly. It looks as if the leaves are
being
tunnelled, and some are curling up and turning brown. I've put a couple
of
photo here -

http://ourallotment.mysite.freeserve.com/page8.html


Any ideas what's wrong, and what if anything I can do about it?
Any advice appreciated.

Steve

Hi Steve,
Thats what mine looked like last year, it seems I had it planted in the
wrong place. I had it in my front garden which is East facing ( and also
gets a nasty blast from the north winds when they blow)so it got a blast
of
sun really early in the morning and with the dew on the leaves they
literally burned. It's in a container now in the back garden in a spot
where
the sun doesn't reach it until about midday and it's looking very healthy.
Also, the container is filled with homemade compost, so maybe this is
helping it too, whatever it is, the compost or the aspect it's certainly a
lot healthier looking than I've ever seen it.

Thanks for the replies folks, I'm not totally convinced it's scorch, or only
scorch, some bits are definitely being eaten but I can't find the culprit.
It lives in a sheltered corner between the shed and the fence. A case of
fingers crossed and watch this space I think.

Thanks again.

Steve