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Acer Platanoides Drummondii looks ill
ghobbs404
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I have an variegated Acer Platanoides Drummondii which is about 8 to 10 metres high.
The leaves below about 2 metres look perfectly normal, (These are sheltered by fences and some large shrubs.) but those higher up the tree get progressively smaller, especially on the "windward" side with some of the highest twigs completely bare. We did have extremely strong winds here a few weeks ago just as the buds were breaking, and, because I am only about 1.5 miles from the sea these may have been carrying some salt.
I am assuming that the strong wind was to blame, but could the tree be diseased?
1) Is the tree likely to recover?
2) Is there anything I can do to "help" the tree recover?
Geoff H
The leaves below about 2 metres look perfectly normal, (These are sheltered by fences and some large shrubs.) but those higher up the tree get progressively smaller, especially on the "windward" side with some of the highest twigs completely bare. We did have extremely strong winds here a few weeks ago just as the buds were breaking, and, because I am only about 1.5 miles from the sea these may have been carrying some salt.
I am assuming that the strong wind was to blame, but could the tree be diseased?
1) Is the tree likely to recover?
2) Is there anything I can do to "help" the tree recover?
Geoff H
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Here are a few pictures taken this morning (07/06/2021). The strong winds mentioned above came from the left of these pictures.
The tree to the immediate right of the Acer is a Holly at one end of a mixed hedge including Hawthorne, a little Ivy, more Holly, Privet, some Blackberry, a few birds' nests etc.
1) The Acer as a whole except for the low & normal branch leaving the tree horizontally to the left. (As an indication of scale the fence in the background is about 8 feet high. I am just under 6 feet tall and I cannot reach the top of the fence which has been there for several years.)
2) The top of the tree, with small, shriveled and missing leaves.
3) Some leaves, even inside the tree, have shriveled edges about 2 metres from the ground.
The branch carrying normal leaves.
Geoff.
Regards
Geoff.