I have two large well established rowans in my garden and the larger one has the splitting bark on main trunk and many of the larger branches too. A few years ago I took the first big branch off that was displaying the splitting bark and the sectioned log showed half the branch was dead, brown and seasoned looking whilst the top half was still green. Is this typical of the honey fungus? and does it spread. I think I will have to take the larger rowan out this year Fortunately some of the seeds have self propagated and I have some young trees in pots. If replanting on the same site, should I leave it for s few years to let the ground live a bit or should I go for something like as willow as the ground in West Lothian is full of clay and not good at draining?
Rowans are easily propagated from seed. Gather some of your berries and place in sand in a pot to over winter then sow in seed compost in spring. The young plants grow fast.
My Rowan tree looks diseased this year. The leaves are mottled or spotty with brown marks. I've looked at fireblight and it's not that. It's the first time this tree has suffered anything like this but it has produced berries. Any ideas? Many thanks.
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I have two large well established rowans in my garden and the larger one has the splitting bark on main trunk and many of the larger branches too. A few years ago I took the first big branch off that was displaying the splitting bark and the sectioned log showed half the branch was dead, brown and seasoned looking whilst the top half was still green. Is this typical of the honey fungus? and does it spread. I think I will have to take the larger rowan out this year
Fortunately some of the seeds have self propagated and I have some young trees in pots. If replanting on the same site, should I leave it for s few years to let the ground live a bit or should I go for something like as willow as the ground in West Lothian is full of clay and not good at draining?
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Rowans are easily propagated from seed. Gather some of your berries and place in sand in a pot to over winter then sow in seed compost in spring. The young plants grow fast.
My Rowan tree looks diseased this year. The leaves are mottled or spotty with brown marks. I've looked at fireblight and it's not that. It's the first time this tree has suffered anything like this but it has produced berries. Any ideas? Many thanks.