This is a very useful forum. I’ve only used it twice but both times the advice has been game changing. The advice from Plantminded has made me totally rethink. I hadn’t even considered a hydrangea but now I am sure a shrub of that size is the way to go. One question: In my acid soil I have blue hydrangeas not pink. Does the hydrangea paniculata Limelight maintain its colour?
Don't be too hasty. Might be worth removing the dead crown growth, cutting the trunks to a lower level, and giving it a month or 2 to see if it may regenerate. Unless you want rid of it now, of course.
The white hydrangeas aren't affected by soil pH @harkinma, in the way that the pinks and blues are, so any colour changes are down to the variety itself ,and the flowers aging and fading during late summer/early autumn. Some get a blue tinge, some get a pink one, and some are greenish. I grow the oak leaf ones, which stay pretty much white, but it's the foliage colour that they're really grown for.
The problem with Kilmarnock willows is that they get top heavy and keel over. You hardly ever see them looking good, because by the time people realise they haven't staked them well enough, it's too late .
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
My red leaved cordyline in a bed in my back garden looks very similar. It has happened to that before so I will be doing what I did then and just chopping it right down and letting it sprout again from the crown. I don't think I can face digging it out as the roots are very well established.
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Might be worth removing the dead crown growth, cutting the trunks to a lower level, and giving it a month or 2 to see if it may regenerate.
Unless you want rid of it now, of course.
The problem with Kilmarnock willows is that they get top heavy and keel over. You hardly ever see them looking good, because by the time people realise they haven't staked them well enough, it's too late .
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border