Beech is always healthy here. Different climate, which helps. My Dad's hedge never had any pests on it that I can recall. I certainly didn't notice anything problematic when I was clipping it, but then again, it's all part of nature and normality in a garden. They're all greening up quite nicely here, hedging and trees. A little earlier than normal, but all the trees have been a bit earlier into growth this year. The blue tits will certainly have enjoyed that for the chicks @fidgetbones. That's the problem when people start spraying at the first sign of anything. Good balance is always the way forward
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I'm hoping last year was an aberration , I even had sunburnt apples. Parts of the beech hedge went brown prematurely, but have now greened up for this year as normal.
Fingers crossed for it @fidgetbones. I couldn't live down south. It's starting to get too much here, with longer sunny/dry spells of weather, and more often. We're not used to that here
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I've had a white fly in my beech (annoying when you are cutting the hedge and breath tehm in. Also in my box bushes (probably not the same species). But never a problem.
fidgety... If you stop spraying you achieve a balance. But in whose favour?
The going brown prematurely: were the leaves abnormally shrivelled? Like the pics at the beginning of the thread? Did they fall off rather than being retained? Could be the dreaded mite.
PS I have the blue tit pair working their little *rses off feeding their latest brood in one of my bird boxes.
PPS. Inside our house, the kitchen and loo especially, we tilt the bio balance in favour of our health. Seems right to do it in the garden as well.
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They're all greening up quite nicely here, hedging and trees. A little earlier than normal, but all the trees have been a bit earlier into growth this year.
The blue tits will certainly have enjoyed that for the chicks @fidgetbones. That's the problem when people start spraying at the first sign of anything. Good balance is always the way forward
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
fidgety... If you stop spraying you achieve a balance. But in whose favour?
The going brown prematurely: were the leaves abnormally shrivelled? Like the pics at the beginning of the thread? Did they fall off rather than being retained? Could be the dreaded mite.
PS I have the blue tit pair working their little *rses off feeding their latest brood in one of my bird boxes.
PPS. Inside our house, the kitchen and loo especially, we tilt the bio balance in favour of our health. Seems right to do it in the garden as well.
"Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."