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Flamingo tree
christiestewartBhqC7sVL
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Hi, all of a sudden my tree has gone brown. I’ve checked the soil and it is damp enough. Will this come back? What do I need to do to save it? I’ve attached some pictures. 
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The trunk is from an ordinary willow and at the top of the trunk you'll see a knobbly bit where the top was grafted onto the trunk - so it's 2 plants that have been fused together.
Try scraping a bit if the bark on the branches with just a fingernail, if you see some green, it's still alive. If there's no green, that part is dead and try the other branches.
You can do the same on the trunk if there's no green on the branches.
If there's some green when you scrape the trunk, then that's alive.
But if the top bit is dead and the bottom bit is alive, then you've got an ordinary willow tree.
Billericay - Essex
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Don't feed it anything this year, just keep the compost from drying out.
Can't see if it has pot feet, but the pot should be raised off the ground a little or it may suffer from being too wet over winter. I use either bits of thin off-cuts of wood or bits of polystyrene - anything to lift it about 1/2"
Apart from that just leave it.
The leaves will drop when tree is ready and it should be ok next year.
Some of the ends may have died back a bit, but you can justy trim them off next spring.
Glad it seems to have survived.
Between march and sept a feed of seaweed extract every couple of weeks will keep it in good health
Billericay - Essex
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.