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Garden in distress - Please help
Hi all,
i am am an amateur there who inherited a garden with the house I bought - was already in distress - I brought it back to life over the last year, but now seems to be in distress again with infestation or disease which I need your help to identify.
I thjnk the main main plant here is from the prunus family - see photos - about 20 of the same plant. I pruned these last summer and they were still all dried up from previous neglect. This season they came back to life and one of them even was flowering (long bush of small white flowers). Now here is the list of issues I see. I think these might be more than one issue
1) Full branches turning brown all of a sudden (flowering one)
2) Brown holes in all the leaves. Sometimes just holes
3) All new leaves are turning brown from the sides
4) Some of the thick trunks are green instead of brown
5) Just one of the 20 plants have a bush of leaves which have white residue on it
Rose - I also have 2 rose bushes which seem to be catching the same or a new issue - last three pictures are the rose
1) One full branch is turning brown
2) brown spots on leaves which have not turned brown already
3) Small black fly on the top of the flowers
i tried reading up about this and it does not seem like the canker as there is no ozzing sticky liquid from the trunks or the branches
please please help
Devesh








i am am an amateur there who inherited a garden with the house I bought - was already in distress - I brought it back to life over the last year, but now seems to be in distress again with infestation or disease which I need your help to identify.
I thjnk the main main plant here is from the prunus family - see photos - about 20 of the same plant. I pruned these last summer and they were still all dried up from previous neglect. This season they came back to life and one of them even was flowering (long bush of small white flowers). Now here is the list of issues I see. I think these might be more than one issue
1) Full branches turning brown all of a sudden (flowering one)
2) Brown holes in all the leaves. Sometimes just holes
3) All new leaves are turning brown from the sides
4) Some of the thick trunks are green instead of brown
5) Just one of the 20 plants have a bush of leaves which have white residue on it
Rose - I also have 2 rose bushes which seem to be catching the same or a new issue - last three pictures are the rose
1) One full branch is turning brown
2) brown spots on leaves which have not turned brown already
3) Small black fly on the top of the flowers
i tried reading up about this and it does not seem like the canker as there is no ozzing sticky liquid from the trunks or the branches
please please help
Devesh









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Perhaps someone else will have some ideas?
I recommend you prune all the Cherry Laurels back quite hard. This way, you limit any spread of any disease like shot-hole infection lingering in the leaf and branches. Thoroughly clean your blades. Remove all fallen leaves promptly.
The roses also need to be pruned back to branches where there is healthy growth. Again, promptly remove fallen leaves around its base. If the area is quite shaded, your rose may not thrive there. Most roses need a fair bit of sun.
Is pruning the only way. Is there any insecticide or pesticide i should be using?
You could try cutting the roses back by about a third, remove all damaged leaves, give them a good water and loosely work in a rose feed (not too much) in the soil around the roses (but not in direct contact with the stems). They will put on new growth and eventually recover. That worked for my roses. Don’t apply any insecticide/pesticide, best to let the roses recover naturally.
I don’t know if similar treatment would work with the laurels but worth a go.
Good luck!
btw any guesses on what this plant is. How can I make sure of what it is
I've just realised that @Nollie has given you virtually the same advice for the damaged roses.
1) I am posting fresh pictures of the white behind the leaves.
2) the dried leaves problem seems to be spreading. See last picture where the original left plant had dried up and now the one on its right is also starting to dry up
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