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Magnolia died off
patannie
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I have a small magnolia tree which I moved last autumn to front garden. It was looking fine in spring with flower buds ready to open and we went away for a few days. On our return the blooms had either fallen off or died. I had given the tree a feed of maglnolia nutrients earlier in year. I did at first think it was snails as there were several crawling up the trunk !!. BUT surely this would not have killed off tree which is what it looks like now. all leaf buds have fallen off or dried up and its really just a large twig now. Does anyone know what it might be and what can be done to remedy it. Many thanks
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All you can do is keep it watered and hope. There was a late frost here which killed all of the leaves and flowers on 4 of my young magnolias. The ones which were planted 2 years ago have now recovered and grown new leaves but the two planted last Autumn are dead sticks and have now been pulled up.
Use your thumbnail to scrape a small amount of the outer bark from the trunk, starting at the top. If it is still green underneath they are alive. If brown, the wood is dead at that section, so move down a few inches and try again. If brown all the way down there is no hope of recovery. If you do find green tissue, cut all of the dead wood above it off, just above a bud if you can see one.