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Help please! New cherry laurel hedge wilting and yellowing
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Hi folks
Hoping I can pick your collective brains about a laurel hedge I planted about 3 weeks ago.
I bought ten 4-foot high bare root cherry laurel plants, with the aim of creating a privacy hedge at the front of our house.
Some of the plants seem to be doing okay, but 3 of them are starting to wilt and the leaves are yellowing.
The soil is London clay. I dug down about 18 inches before planting, and mixed a few bags of compost and about 300g bone meal into the soil, giving it a good mix. The plants themselves arrived in a very sandy soil rootball. I mixed some of the excess sandy soil in too.
I watered well after planting, and then 2-3 large watering cans each day for the first week and a half. But then stopped, as I read up and saw that overwatering is very easy! I dug down into the soil today, to take a sample (see pic in the bucket). It feels cool and damp to the touch, but not overly moist and definitely not sodden.
The yellowing and drooping started a week ago in one plant, and in the last few days in the others. I'm worried the others will follow...
Am I watering too much, too little, or something else?! All advice gratefully received.
Dan
Hoping I can pick your collective brains about a laurel hedge I planted about 3 weeks ago.
I bought ten 4-foot high bare root cherry laurel plants, with the aim of creating a privacy hedge at the front of our house.
Some of the plants seem to be doing okay, but 3 of them are starting to wilt and the leaves are yellowing.
The soil is London clay. I dug down about 18 inches before planting, and mixed a few bags of compost and about 300g bone meal into the soil, giving it a good mix. The plants themselves arrived in a very sandy soil rootball. I mixed some of the excess sandy soil in too.
I watered well after planting, and then 2-3 large watering cans each day for the first week and a half. But then stopped, as I read up and saw that overwatering is very easy! I dug down into the soil today, to take a sample (see pic in the bucket). It feels cool and damp to the touch, but not overly moist and definitely not sodden.
The yellowing and drooping started a week ago in one plant, and in the last few days in the others. I'm worried the others will follow...
Am I watering too much, too little, or something else?! All advice gratefully received.
Dan
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https://forum.gardenersworld.com/discussion/656523/help-needed-please-with-laurel-hedge-issues/p1
Hope that helps 😊
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.