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New box plants - brown appearing
amysmullen124
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Hi everyone
These 5 year old buxus we’re planted 2 weeks ago, all were a beautiful lush green but within a week the majority Had leaves that had yellow edging all around leaf. And now I’ve noticed brown leaves appearing in all. I watered for first 5 days when they were planted and they got a good drink when planted. In a sun/partial shade spot - where am I going wrong?
These 5 year old buxus we’re planted 2 weeks ago, all were a beautiful lush green but within a week the majority Had leaves that had yellow edging all around leaf. And now I’ve noticed brown leaves appearing in all. I watered for first 5 days when they were planted and they got a good drink when planted. In a sun/partial shade spot - where am I going wrong?
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I think it might be done to a couple of things, the leaves can turn a bit orange by the end of Winter due to environmental stress. Also if they were recently planted it may be that they had used up all the nutrients in the original pots and were a bit starved. Now the days are drawing out and warming up (in theory !), they should start to pick up.
You might want to consider giving them a feed.
This is just my opinion though. In the meantime, lots of information here
https://www.rhs.org.uk/advice/profile?pid=851
and hopefully someone can confirm or disagree with what l've said 🙂
I have a Myrtle that suffered when we had the recent cold blast and many of the leaves on that are similar (or much worse) than yours.
I'd guess it's the weather too, but I don't have any box, so can't be sure.
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