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Eucalyptus tree

twodarts13tN3yExqotwodarts13tN3yExqo Posts: 11
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My eucalyptus tree has leaves turning reddish brown, with scaly things on the leaf, continually dropping. It’s driving me mad picking up leaves. It’s never happened before!

can anyone help, please
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  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,340
    Have look here - 
    https://www.rhs.org.uk/biodiversity/eucalyptus-gall-wasp

    Billericay - Essex

    Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
    Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
  • twodarts13tN3yExqotwodarts13tN3yExqo Posts: 11
    Thank you for that. The leaves are falling in their hundreds, and driving me mad.
  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,340
    I feel your pain.
    I planted one when I moved here 37yrs ago - Cost £1.99.
    It got to ~100ft before I had it taken out about 12 yrs ago - Cost £1100

    Every june/july my lawn was smothered in dropped leaves - not diseased, just old leaves that the tree dropped.
    Due to their waxy nature, the mower wouldn't touch them so I had to rake them up.
    I'm so glad it's gone!

    It's the big one on the right -


    Billericay - Essex

    Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
    Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
  • twodarts13tN3yExqotwodarts13tN3yExqo Posts: 11
    In the last year I’ve had 2 enormous conifers go, one fell down and one I had taken down. Then a large poplar lost a big branch and took some of my hedge out so that went as well. Now I have 2 eucalyptus dropping leaves, and they look awful.
  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,340
    Things can only get better.... 😁

    Billericay - Essex

    Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
    Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    @Pete.8.  We must have been doing the same thing at the same time!  I bought mine in Morrison and planted it to commemorate my daughter becoming a teenager.  Huge great thing in no time,  we moved 13 years ago,  I don’t know if it’s still there.
    A friend of ours had to have a row of them felled by court order from the council,  they are dangers apparently when they grow so tall,   Can fall at any moment. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,340
    When the firm who many of us use locally came to fell it they did say that despite their size they'd never known of one coming down in high winds.
    During the great storm of (wheneneveritwas) it did end up at about 45°, but it was only about 15ft then, I propped it up and it grew away again quickly and soon got to around 100ft. - I did lose 7 trees that night. 
    I only wish I'd removed it when I had the chance.

    Billericay - Essex

    Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
    Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
  • twodarts13tN3yExqotwodarts13tN3yExqo Posts: 11
    I could have easily taken your garden photo for my own garden!
  • twodarts13tN3yExqotwodarts13tN3yExqo Posts: 11
    I started taking branches off both of my eucalyptus today. On Wednesday a garden man is coming to take the trees down to a reasonable height. So glad to be getting rid of those leaves falling
  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,340
    I'd ask them to take them down to about 3ft 😁

    Billericay - Essex

    Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
    Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
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