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Struggling pittosporum

davidpeel2davidpeel2 Posts: 1
in Problem solving
I have two pittosporum in sleeper raised beds that were doing really well until this spring. Now they look dried up as if they’ve never been watered.
At first I thought it was frost damage, but it has deteriorated recently in the warm weather.
 Ive watered and fed them with liquid tomato feed over the past 2 months, but no improvement. In fact they’ve deteriorated.
Should they not be in raised beds at all? (There is no base to the beds)
I’ve got pictures but can’t upload cos they’re too big apparently.

many thanks 

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  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    Not all Pittosporum are hardy. It is likely they were damaged this winter, in which case watering would not help them.
    Tomato feed is not really the right stuff to give them, it is to help flowering. They are unlikely to need feeding at all.
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  • Allotment BoyAllotment Boy Posts: 6,774
    I agree it was probably the winter weather a lot of these were damaged in this last winter (as were many other shrubs like Hebe).  The issue seems to be, certainly round here, we snow which partially thawed but then froze hard. Normally dryish snow acts as a blanket and protects plants from hard frost. I volunteer at Capel Manor gardens in Enfield and "we" lost several shrubs including Pittosporum in the Japanese garden and the wider grounds. Sometime a plant may take some time to show damage and die, it may even put on a last gasp of growth before the inevitable end. 
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