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Very sad Hebe bush
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I have a very sad looking Hebe bush. It came with the house - which was built in 2015, so I guess it was planted at the same time. We've been here since 2018. The first couple of years it was very happy and healthy and grew far too big!
We pruned it back by just chopping off the tops where it had got too high. We did that a couple of times, but then found that underneath the top leafy bit it was all brown. Not dead, just not leafy. So we stopped cutting the tops off as didn't want to kill it.
Fast forward to the start of this year and it started to look really sad! It had gone brown in places and I'm pretty sure those areas are dead. The twigs snap off and are totally dry.
I have a horrible worry that using feed+weed on the grass near it might have caused it. Or perhaps it is just neglect? We haven't been cutting off the dead flowers as we didn't know that was needed until we started researching.
My plan is to remove all the dead parts and see what happens. But does anyone know what could have caused this? The weather hasn't been anything special compared to previous years. Could it be just awful soil quality? The topsoil here is about 1cm deep!
Would love to know if people think it can be saved or if it's a gonner.
I'll post a picture in a moment, just need to resize it.
We pruned it back by just chopping off the tops where it had got too high. We did that a couple of times, but then found that underneath the top leafy bit it was all brown. Not dead, just not leafy. So we stopped cutting the tops off as didn't want to kill it.
Fast forward to the start of this year and it started to look really sad! It had gone brown in places and I'm pretty sure those areas are dead. The twigs snap off and are totally dry.
I have a horrible worry that using feed+weed on the grass near it might have caused it. Or perhaps it is just neglect? We haven't been cutting off the dead flowers as we didn't know that was needed until we started researching.
My plan is to remove all the dead parts and see what happens. But does anyone know what could have caused this? The weather hasn't been anything special compared to previous years. Could it be just awful soil quality? The topsoil here is about 1cm deep!
Would love to know if people think it can be saved or if it's a gonner.
I'll post a picture in a moment, just need to resize it.
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