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Prunus Laurel
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Help. My Laurel, planted last year, is suffering. Although it has new shoots at the top, there is a considerable amount of leaf fall, and they are all yellow. The new shoots are tinged with black and some are totally black and, well dead. One plant is now like 'cardboard', brown and red! I sprayed the laurel today with 'roseclear' to keep the aphids away and whilst spraying I noticed spirders, green spiders with a white sack, ants, and another insect that looks like a cricket, but red and black. Can someone help and tell me what to do so save my Laurel. Is there something I should be spaying?
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Nothing needs spraying
The aphids could have been brushed off or hosed off with water. All insects aren't after your plants, they're part of the natural world.
Can you post some photos, the plant doesn't sound too well. Laurels do drop leaves through the summer but the black doesn't sound good.
In the sticks near Peterborough
Hi Cat
If you're on a PC start from the tree in the tool bar. Ignore the error message and press enter. On a phone you'd probably need to use a photo storage site.
In the sticks near Peterborough
No cutting and pasting doesn't work.
Are you on a pc/laptop or a tablet or phone?
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Cat, where you type your post there is a toolbar just above and ^ is the green tree icon. It can take a minute or two to upload so patience is a virtue
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The toolbar is right above where you type, are you using Chrome or I.E.? Not a toolbar at the top of your page.
The toolbar may not be visible because of your settings. Go to 'Settings' then 'Forum Settings' and click on 'Advanced Editor' and that should do the trick.
Thank you Ceres. Not sure if you can see from the photos, but I have collected about a wheely bin full of yellow leaves. I am not sure if the laurels have a illness, too wet or too dry, or if it is to do with ants, spiders, etc.