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Plants mysteriously dieing

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  • raisingirlraisingirl Posts: 7,093
    leaking stray voltage? Hmm. I think that it's probably a telephone pole anyway.

    If there's a road behind the hedge, I'd guess at something having been spilled on the road - petrol, oil or the like - and then washed into your garden by surface water - have you had heavy rain recently? It's a pure guess though - I've never seen anything like that
    Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon

    “It's still magic even if you know how it's done.” 
  • LoxleyLoxley Posts: 5,698
    Reminds me of damage I saw where a neighbour had been washing his patio with strong bleach and allowed it to wash off into the soil. 
    "What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbour". 
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited June 2021
    I agree @Loxley … the shape of the damaged area resembles the way liquid spreads/seeps over an area of soil 🤔 

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





  • raisingirlraisingirl Posts: 7,093
    edited June 2021
     the shape of the damaged area resembles the way liquid spreads/seeps over an area of soil 🤔 
    yes, that's what I was thinking - it looks water-borne, whatever it is. Fungal things spread in circles, in the main, sprays or airborne tend to be more oval-shaped. It looks like whatever is behind the hedge has had something spilled onto it and washed off into the garden.
    Without knowing what it is though, it's hard to say if it's reached a limit or will continue to leach through the soil
    Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon

    “It's still magic even if you know how it's done.” 
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