I have a 10 foot conifer which has begun to turn brown, is there any hope of saving him?
Kev
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here he is in July this year, now he has swathes of brown SOB SOB!
its the far one near the GH
Aaw what a shame, I'm not sure you can do anything to save him. I hope someone else might have more encouraging words....
Good luck!
T.
Ps your garden looks good. :)
It's going to be the summer drought. Trouble is, although water now might keep it alive, it's not going to re-green. Sorry - it's a real shame.
HI
I had the same thing happen, and even though i watered them there still brown.
Will have to think of something to replace them with next year. I have a lovley honey bush ('Melianthus major') It says propagated by division but the plants only a year ( bought in 2 ltr pot ) so i dont know when or how to do it.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/gardening/plants/plant_finder/plant_pages/539.shtml
That would be a great plant to replace it with.
Cambourne7
Thanks Cambourne7, but its too tender for my area!
Camboure7?? sounds like a campaign to get someone released?
Cheers Kev
Browning conifer means a dying conifer. So best to put it out of its misery and replace it with something much nicer.
You're not the only one who's had a tree suffer this year; my Victoria plum withered up and I'm now pretty sure it's dead. I don't think it was anything more than the drought.
Quote from: KevB on November 18, 2006, 08:42:53
Thanks Cambourne7, but its too tender for my area!
Camboure7?? sounds like a campaign to get someone released?
Cheers Kev
not a campaign more of a play of words :-)
Our big one - 54' - gets masses of brown bits each year, which fall off & mess up my beds. But it still keeps growing. Meant to put a photo here earlier but it's difficult to show the problem clearly.
Quote from: Garden Cadet on November 18, 2006, 18:34:50
Browning conifer means a dying conifer. So best to put it out of its misery and replace it with something much nicer.
I should point out here that i am no fan of conifers! I think they are dull and smelly.
cats sometimes spray conifers to 'mark' their territory in my experience, /shades x
Shades - they're not choosy!
GC - each to their own - were it not for our conifers, we would have 6 neighbourly bathrooms to view. I'd rather have a 'few dull' conifers.
Quote from: tim on November 24, 2006, 11:07:06
Shades - they're not choosy!
GC - each to their own - were it not for our conifers, we would have 6 neighbourly bathrooms to view. I'd rather have a 'few dull' conifers.
Sorry Tim, I have a deep psycological aversion to the plants following a bad childhood expereince. We had a leylandii hedge where I lived as a child. I had to help maintain it, and later actualy maintain it myself when I was old enough. I grew to hate the smell and the sap brings me out in a rash. Now in my current garden i have 9 mature pines, which cast shade, riddle the soil with their roots and suck moisture from it, and generaly make a mess with needles and cones.
I know not all conifers are like leylandii and pines, some are quite nice and i confess to growing a couple in pots (one a very dwarf type), but I still think they are a bit dull compared to some of the other shrubs you can grow.