I am doing to keep eyes on both trees for a couple of months. I will do a trim for the big one until Jul-Aug as above suggestions. The little one - the ugly one, I will see how much the pale green leaves could grow back. I don't know what the previous house owner did. Maybe it's by frost because the tree can get early morning sunshine. Maybe it's by a weedkiller. The green leaves look growing on some dead brown leaves. Strange& Interesting! I do agree the gravel isn't doing a good job for the plants.
Tee Gee I think you have it bang on the button, most conifers do not like limestone. they like a neutral or leaning to acidic soil. Where I live which is near the coast conifers suffer from two things and alkaline soil is the cause of it all..No iron in the soil few trace elements cause poor growth and the inadequate root stock makes wind rock a certainty leading to instability and rot.
Both look like they've been planted in a desert breathing nothing but car fumes. Surely not the best environment for starters. First one looks like a gonna.
Making soil better is quite an art in itself but you need good supported growth and a resilience to everything thrown at these trees, protection from harsh frost is a good start so what about a breathable blanket throughout winter. Take a ph sample of soil one spades depth down, see what the soil is comprised of and what its condition is, once that is done you will know [as I do]where to go from there. Any leaning to alkalinity add peat or what it is now more commonly known as ericaceous compost, and then in a few weeks check it again. I live by the coast and people in these new houses with lovely lawns plant conifers in the borders, really you should see how bedraggled and unhealthy they look, the reason why is most people do not do their homework, therefore never know what soil will support what plants,the soil here as I previously indicated is highly alkaline, really not much grows successfully in alkaline soil,what grows in a desert will grow here in the wild but for one thing,and that is the constant cold everything else I have noticed suffers in one way or another..Take Tee Gee's advice as I said he has it bang on the button AL,
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I am doing to keep eyes on both trees for a couple of months. I will do a trim for the big one until Jul-Aug as above suggestions. The little one - the ugly one, I will see how much the pale green leaves could grow back. I don't know what the previous house owner did. Maybe it's by frost because the tree can get early morning sunshine. Maybe it's by a weedkiller. The green leaves look growing on some dead brown leaves. Strange& Interesting! I do agree the gravel isn't doing a good job for the plants.
Tee Gee I think you have it bang on the button, most conifers do not like limestone. they like a neutral or leaning to acidic soil. Where I live which is near the coast conifers suffer from two things and alkaline soil is the cause of it all..No iron in the soil few trace elements cause poor growth and the inadequate root stock makes wind rock a certainty leading to instability and rot.
Both look like they've been planted in a desert breathing nothing but car fumes. Surely not the best environment for starters. First one looks like a gonna.
Making soil better is quite an art in itself but you need good supported growth and a resilience to everything thrown at these trees, protection from harsh frost is a good start so what about a breathable blanket throughout winter. Take a ph sample of soil one spades depth down, see what the soil is comprised of and what its condition is, once that is done you will know [as I do]where to go from there. Any leaning to alkalinity add peat or what it is now more commonly known as ericaceous compost, and then in a few weeks check it again. I live by the coast and people in these new houses with lovely lawns plant conifers in the borders, really you should see how bedraggled and unhealthy they look, the reason why is most people do not do their homework, therefore never know what soil will support what plants,the soil here as I previously indicated is highly alkaline, really not much grows successfully in alkaline soil,what grows in a desert will grow here in the wild but for one thing,and that is the constant cold everything else I have noticed suffers in one way or another..Take Tee Gee's advice as I said he has it bang on the button AL,