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Peach tree

Laura 20Laura 20 Posts: 4
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Hi all, I'm very new to gardening and hoping for a little advice! A couple of years ago my boyfriend and I moved into our current house. It was the first time either of us had owned our own garden and we were (still are!) pretty clueless. We discovered that we had three pretty well established fruit trees, which turned out to be peach, apple and cherry trees and last autumn we figured we should get them pruned so hired a gardener. He asked me how much I wanted taking off and I just said 'whatever's best for the tree'. He took a LOT off the peach tree. Fast forward to now, and the apple and cherry trees have come into blossom, but there's no sign of life on the peach tree apart from a bit of sap where some of the beaches were cut. Does it sound like too much was taken off? Is there anything I can do to encourage the tree? I'd be gutted if we've killed it! Thanks in advance.

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  • Laura 20Laura 20 Posts: 4
    Cambridgeshire. It seemed to be doing nicely before we pruned it. Got a lot of fruit from it.
  • Laura 20Laura 20 Posts: 4

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    Thanks for replying.  I've taken another look at the tree and (hopefully) uploaded a couple of pictures.  The first is how the tree looks now (unfortunately I don't have a picture of how it used to look) and the second is of a little branch I found hiding in the palm tree next to it, which seems to have a little life in it!  Is this hopeful?

    Thanks again.

  • Laura 20Laura 20 Posts: 4

    thanks image Feel really stupid for not doing more research before hand! His advert said he specialised in pruning fruit treesimage I'll get some fertiliser and cross my fingers!

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