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Help with Bay Tree!

Jdaisy14Jdaisy14 Posts: 25
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Please can someone give me advice on my bay tree I have no idea what is wrong with the plant. 
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  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    First scrape the bark with your fingernail to see if the plant is dead already. If there's green underneath, there's some life.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • amancalledgeorgeamancalledgeorge Posts: 2,736
    Was it fried by the really hot weather we've had? Doesn't look particularly promising. 
    To Plant a Garden is to Believe in Tomorrow
  • Jdaisy14Jdaisy14 Posts: 25
    Yes there is some green under the bark 
  • Jdaisy14Jdaisy14 Posts: 25
    Do you think it is over watered?
  • amancalledgeorgeamancalledgeorge Posts: 2,736
    It looks utterly sun scorched 
    To Plant a Garden is to Believe in Tomorrow
  • Jdaisy14Jdaisy14 Posts: 25
    amancalledgeorge said:
    It looks utterly sun scorched 
    Ah ok what is the solution 
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited August 2020
    How much water have you been giving it?  Mine is in a gritty free-draining loam-based compost and has roughly a gallon of water every other day in the summer ... more often during the recent hot spell. 

    Tell us more about your tree. How long have you had it? What is it planted in? Is it in a sunny or shady spot?

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Jdaisy14Jdaisy14 Posts: 25
    Ive just been given it and it’s about 10-15 years old. It is potted in a terracotta tub in mixed soil. It’s on a patio in direct sunlight 
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Perhaps it was in a shadier spot in its former home? 
    If so the leaves might not have toughened up enough to cope with the very strong sun we had recently. 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Jdaisy14Jdaisy14 Posts: 25
    It was on a patio before in direct sunlight though 
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