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Forsythia - and wisteria
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Wandering around the garden today, I noticed that one of my two forsythia bushes is looking very unhappy. It has a large number of leaves that are brown around the edges. Many of the leaves are also turning yellow, especially along the veins. The problem resembles blight in potatoes or tomatoes (but forsythia isn't in the same family as these, so I wouldn't expect it to have the same diseases). I can see a similar browning of the leaves on a pot-grown wisteria in another part of the garden, which might or might not be related to the problem with the forsythia.
Any ideas?
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It's late in what has been quite a warm and dry season (well here it has anyway). Autumn is here and the leaves are dying - well, that's my diagnosis for the forsythia anyway.
I'm worried about a wisteria in a pot - how big is the pot?
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I agree with Dovefromabove - it is Autumn and the Forsythia leaves are getting ready to fall. Don't worry, they will reappear after the blossom next Spring. It's all part of nature's cycle. Month Don remarked on Friday that Autumn was about three weeks earlier this year. I don't know anything about wisteria, but have you been keeping the pot well watered?