Yes, it happened just over the summer, was fine and healthy before that. Its also the fact that its spreading to others that made us think it was something that could spread.
Lack of water didn't even occur to us, its something the garden centre said. Not sure we agree with that though, your explanation sounds more plausible. Thank you.
I had the same problem with a 25 foot conifer in my garden over the space of two weeks it completely died. it is definitely a disease or fungus that is killing it i imagine it to be honey fungus due to how quickly it died. My advice would be to take it out dig the stump out to stop the disease spreading. Mid way through october you may see some fruiting bodies from the fungus start to appear which will make the identifying the disease much easier.
@clueless Gardener, unless you conifer is a Thuja its game over. you can identify this tree by grinding some of the leaf in your hand if it has a citrusy smell you may be in luck but will be a very slow regeneration period
There is a disease here in France (Pine or Needle blight) that is killing pine trees and it's caused by a small bug. The effected trees die very quickly especially if the summer has been dry. One of our neighbours has lost a couple of trees with more looking like they may have it and another neigbour has completly lost his cyprus hedge, it also looks like some of our trees have it too.
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That's interesting. Thanks, will monitor now the hot weather has gone and we're getting more rain.
Hi Verdun,
Yes, it happened just over the summer, was fine and healthy before that. Its also the fact that its spreading to others that made us think it was something that could spread.
Lack of water didn't even occur to us, its something the garden centre said. Not sure we agree with that though, your explanation sounds more plausible. Thank you.
Rob
I had the same problem with a 25 foot conifer in my garden over the space of two weeks it completely died. it is definitely a disease or fungus that is killing it i imagine it to be honey fungus due to how quickly it died. My advice would be to take it out dig the stump out to stop the disease spreading. Mid way through october you may see some fruiting bodies from the fungus start to appear which will make the identifying the disease much easier.
@clueless Gardener, unless you conifer is a Thuja its game over. you can identify this tree by grinding some of the leaf in your hand if it has a citrusy smell you may be in luck but will be a very slow regeneration period
There is a disease here in France (Pine or Needle blight) that is killing pine trees and it's caused by a small bug. The effected trees die very quickly especially if the summer has been dry. One of our neighbours has lost a couple of trees with more looking like they may have it and another neigbour has completly lost his cyprus hedge, it also looks like some of our trees have it too.
That's interesting. Thanks, will monitor now the hot weather has gone and we're getting more rain.