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Cotoneaster issue?

TSMTSM Posts: 41
edited February 2023 in Problem solving
Hi,
Can anybody please tell me what is wrong with my young cotoneaster tree?
Its suddenly started to show yellow leaves with green spots. I planted in late summer/autumn time. Im not sure if its too much water, not enough water, disease or frosts? help! :(

thank you
Tracy

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  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445
    How many leaves are like that? There are always a few dead/dying leaves on an evergreen


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  • TSMTSM Posts: 41
    Hi, quite a few but more green than yellow ones. 
  • robairdmacraignilrobairdmacraignil Posts: 782
    Some plants will take nutrients out of their older leaves so they can use them to help produce new ones. I have a good few cotoneaster shrubs that are semi evergreen with some of the older leaves being dropped now before the weather warms up and they get more of full covering of leaves again. There are also a few cotoneaster trees in the garden here that are a different variety that are more completely deciduous and have dropped all of their leaves. As nutcutlet says there are often a few older leaves being dropped even by evergreen plants and it might not be anything wrong with them.

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  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    I wouldn't be worried either. All quite normal, especially as you've planted it recently.
      
    It'll still be establishing, and as you describe it as a 'tree' rather than a [woody] shrub, I'm guessing it might be quite a large specimen? That will take longer to settle than  an average specimen that was in a 6 or 7 inch pot, for example   :)
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  • bédébédé Posts: 3,095
    edited February 2023
    Evergreen leaves don't last forever.  When they die they recycle useful nutrients, sometimes going spotty on the way.
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