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Autumnal senescence

bédébédé Posts: 3,095
edited September 2022 in Plants
I am currently reverently watching the late Queen's funeral on TV.

I see the London Plane trees are beginning to look autumnal.  As is my Catalpa, but that is one of the first to turn, as well as the last to open. Also early are Horse Chestnuts which, even without the leaf-miner, start to turn in late August.

Many of the problems discuused here this year have been about early senescence caused by the hot weather.  My beech hedge mite amongst them.
 location: Surrey Hills, England, ex-woodland acidic sand.
"Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."

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  • fidgetbonesfidgetbones Posts: 17,618
    My beech hedge has turned a funny colour. Not the brown it goes usually.  Mine and my mums  Crocosmia lucifer  went over in days and the leaves also turned a funny brown colour.  Since it rained here, a lot of other stuff including my brown lawn, greened up quickly and started to grow again.  I have sunburnt apples.
  • bcpathomebcpathome Posts: 1,313
    My beech hedge has as well .Reckon it’s got mites or something,they like hot dry weather .Looks like the leaves will be no good for the compost if they’re contaminated with mites, should come good if we get a wet ish spring hopefully.
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    My beech hedge is an odd orange too. I was wondering. Praying for a very wet winter and spring.
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    edited September 2022
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  • bédébédé Posts: 3,095
    Fidget, bcp, Fire, and any others:

    see my post on beech mite.
     location: Surrey Hills, England, ex-woodland acidic sand.
    "Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
  • bédébédé Posts: 3,095
    edited September 2022
    I have on TV just seen the oak trees in Windssor Park. There  are two parallel rows.  Those nearer to the path, perhaps the ancient ones, were looking decidedly autumn-onset.

    Crocosmia flowers never lasts long, shorter than ever this year.  And the leaves died early too..  Mine has no name, it came as a seedling in a pot of somethimg I bought from Beth Chatto's.  I recghised it as not a weed and potted it separately.  It took 4 yeras to flower.
     location: Surrey Hills, England, ex-woodland acidic sand.
    "Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
  • fidgetbonesfidgetbones Posts: 17,618
    Beech hedge on the south side. The other side of the same section. Its only the sunny side that is affected.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    My withered crocosmia have sprouted again. Not enough time for flowers but maybe the new  leaves will feed the corms(?) for next year
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • bédébédé Posts: 3,095
    Fidget:  I've looked at your photos, not the best diagnostic approach, like a phone appointment with a GP.  It looks to me like what I call Beech Mite.

    I f you have a magnifying glass, look at the reverse side of the leaf, the may be lots of little mites moving about,
     location: Surrey Hills, England, ex-woodland acidic sand.
    "Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
  • fidgetbonesfidgetbones Posts: 17,618
    Not the best photos, sorry, but I would have thought that both sides of the hedge would be affected by mites. When it got whitefly, both sides were affected.
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