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Row of Laylandi dying - Why

Duncan 2Duncan 2 Posts: 1
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I understand these are not many people favourite trees, but I have them as my border they are 4m or so and have started to die from one end of the row, last year, the first one and now this year the one next to it and the next one has lost its colour.

Anyone one know why this maybe happening and what I can do to stop it.

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  • CeresCeres Posts: 2,697

    Has someone been hammering copper nails into your trees?

  • barry islandbarry island Posts: 1,846

    I have a conifer which I kept clipped for years, I gave it an annual haircut this spring when it was growing healthily and it has just refused to grow back and has gone brown, it's just one of those things I suppose.

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  • barry islandbarry island Posts: 1,846

    Tetley I have been using shears to trim it for a couple of years as my electric hedge trimmer wasn't cutting very well so I decided to sharpen the hedge trimmer and used that this May time, the hedge trimmer was sharpened and I applied some light oil to the teeth whether it was the oil that affected the bush I don't know but it never grew after the trimming which was only a light one to be fair. I was cleaning the weeds out of the paving earlier and looked at the poor old bush and decided that it wasn't going to recover so I took the saw to it and cut it into bits to go into the green recycling bin, the wood looked ok and the soil was damp so it was either the oil which killed it or some other virus or another, anyhow I'm looking for a clematis which won't grow too big and likes full sun to replace it now.

  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190

    They do only have a relatively short life compared to deciduous trees,that's why they grow acres of them just for cutting down,  maybe yours has come to its end.

    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • GWRSGWRS Posts: 8,478

    Hello this happen to next door , they where infested with red spider mite and one by one they died  , also it could be the age , as as been said they don't last that long 

    it could be terminal for them image

     

  • WelshonionWelshonion Posts: 3,114
    What do you mean they don't last that long? They have only been around since, I think, the 1930's so nobody knows how big they get, or how long they last. Could be 100 years minimum.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,480
    I don't grow conifers, but in my travels around Kent and Sussex I've noticed a lot of dead or browning conifers. I doubt they have all been badly pruned. It has been very dry the last couple of years.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • GWRSGWRS Posts: 8,478

    in the high street where i live there is a hedge of leylandi , other than a bit of green on the top you have over 6 feet of dead branches , looks terrible , the house next door had the same problem but had there taken out in spring 

    probably have been " manicured " in the past image

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