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Sickly amelanchier tree

debslockukdebslockuk Posts: 1
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We planted an amelanchier tree in our garden in April, but in the last week the leaves have started turning brown (as shown in picture). I suspect this might be due to not enough watering, but just wondered if anyone had any other thoughts or if anyone can offer any hope that it can be saved! 
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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Give it 3 buckets full of water today and then twice  a week for the next two weeks, then two buckets full twice a week until the end of September. Pour the water gently over the root area so it sinks down to where the roots should be reaching. 

    Then cross your fingers and I’ll cross mine 🤞 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    Lack of water is usually the reason, as indicated by @Dovefromabove, so it's bucket loads every few days, rather than a watering can now and again. If you can add a layer of mulch of some kind after it's properly wet, that will help too. Bark is particularly good, especially the finer type.  :)
    Planting in April is always more difficult unless you're in a consistently wet area, and that's been virtually nowhere in the UK this year.
    We've had the hottest, driest spell here I can ever remember, so I would have had to water one regularly if I'd planted it recently, when normally it could have been planted, watered in and left alone.
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • GardenerSuzeGardenerSuze Posts: 5,692
    I planted one February 2022 it was 3ft tall. It was a fight trying to keep it going. I have watered it a few times this year too.
    I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    Just shows the difference in conditions @GardenerSuze. I also planted one last February, and about twice the size of yours. Raised bed, against a fence, and rubbish clay soil and compacted ground below the raised bed.  Watered on planting, then maybe once or twice in summer - our hottest on record here.
    It's not been touched since, apart from getting any water 'run off' from other plants around/near it which have been put in since then, and that's only one clematis and some sweet peas.  :)
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • GardenerSuzeGardenerSuze Posts: 5,692
    @Fairygirl I always watch Beechgrove many of the plants that they grow remind me of things I loved to grow in years gone by. There is not enough water to support them in the summer months now.
    I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    It's certainly very worrying @GardenerSuze, as I think we discussed last year. 
    Our conditions are changing here too, and if that's how things are going to be, I'll have to move. I can't cope with this level of heat, which is why I'm inside just now, instead of doing bits and bobs outside. 
    What really annoys me is the lack of consideration I'm seeing re water. I don't know if it's because people just assume we have plenty, because that's the normal state of affairs, or whether they just don't care because we aren't on water meters, so it's a case of  'I'm paying for it so I'll use what I like'.
    The ones who are shaving their grass then leaving sprinklers on for hours at a time, while I'm saving shower water to use on plants, are particularly thoughtless and wasteful IMO. Completely avoidable - just stop cutting the ruddy grass so short.  :|  
    There are serious water shortages in the offing further north too, which is unheard of. 
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • GardenerSuzeGardenerSuze Posts: 5,692
    @Fairygirl Personally I think watering a lawn with a sprinkler should be banned.

    I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    We've had a lot of local roadworks over the last year, and there's temporary lights on the main road I use to go to the shops. I was telling my daughter the other day when we stopped there as I took her to work, that there was a bloke with a sprinkler on in his front garden -around fifty or sixty feet away, when I'd stopped there a week or two ago. I'd wondered why there was water on my windscreen, and then I realised when I saw the sprinkler.
    The grass is about the same are as my lounge [which isn't large!] so he was not only using that [unnecessarily] for a tiny bit of grass, it wasn't even properly contained as it was reaching my car.  :/
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Even our well established amelanchier is suffering in this drought … we’ve just left the hosepipe to trickle at the roots for an hour. 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • bcpathomebcpathome Posts: 1,313
    Can I also add that I think it needs a bigger pot to grow in .
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