Help! Is my Amelanchier dying?
JLou
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We recently purchased an Amalanchier tree to go in a particularly wet spot in our garden, we were advised that the tree would be good for this situation and even help to improve the surrounding areas as the tree likes very moist soil. However two and a half weeks after we planted it I'm worried it's dying. The leaves have for the past few days been turning orange/red, I know this should happen in the autumn but thought it would be too soon to be doing this already. No leaves have dropped off yet.
Do you think it is dying? Do nurseries push trees on into seasons early? I'm thinking in the way they get flowering shrubs to have massive big blooms on them very early in the season in order to make them look appealing. Do they do this with trees? Could my tree have blossomed early and therefore think that it's now coming to autumn?
I will try and upload some pictures but keep getting error messages at the moment.
Thanks for any help you can give!
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It doesn't look good.
I'm not sure about the very wet soil. I think they like some moisture but not poorly drained soil.
In the sticks near Peterborough
Not many people realise that a plant is the same as anything else we purchase, ie if its not fit for purpose you are entitled to a full monetary refund. Which Gardening Magazine recently ran a feature on this. I would suggest you take your receipt and photos back to the supplier. Nothing gained nothing lost?
A A Milne
Thank you for your responses. I have been watering it but refrained from doing it too much as the ground in that area is so wet anyway, even with the recent weather, it's very heavy clay soil so takes a lot to dry out. My tree is now covered in red leaves which have turned brown underneath and are gradually falling off! I shall be revisiting the nursery that I purchased the tree from this week to get their opinion but I think it may be a lost cause.
I know this is old but my amalancheir has done this over night (can't post photos).
It is a year old and has berries. It does get a lot of sun and clay soil.
Could it be the weather?
How long has it been in.?
'You must have some bread with it me duck!'
A year.
We planted ours just over a year ago - it was early May ... it's weighed down with berries and the blackbirds are loving it.
Have you been watering yours? We've been watering ours with a couple of buckets full of water every few days since early spring ... now we're in really hot conditions that bed also has the sprinkler on it for half an hour every other day. We're on quite shallow free-draining loam.
Please excuse the state of the lawn edges and stuff ... I'm laid up with a broken foot at the moment ..... grrrrrrrr!
Last edited: 21 June 2017 19:52:57
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I'm glad someone resurrected this thread! I planted a year old Amelanchier in late winter in pretty much perfect conditions for it and ours too has been well watered. It has done spectacularly well, putting on an incredible amount of growth However, I too have noticed just this week that a few of the leaves are developing prematurely autumnal colour. Reading the comments here makes me wonder if it's something a young Amelanchier is prone to doing in very hot weather? Otherwise, ours still looks very healthy... for now.
Last edited: 21 June 2017 21:46:01
Mike ... you seem to have conflated the original question which was posted three years ago and questions by two other posters - Maylane's question about another amelanchier which was posted yesterday and a post from Blameitonthedog who's amelanchier is doing something similar.
The photos of the progression of the coloured leaves are all from three years ago, and there is no indication from the recent posts that there is/are fences involved.
Last edited: 22 June 2017 08:14:35
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.