Oooh, lovely part of the world - we spend most holidays in Cornwall and have done for years - we were your way last summer - on the southern edge of Bodmin Moor and about 10 days ago we were at St Agnes. A regular and stalwart member of this forum is in West Cornwall and keeps us pretty well informed of the 'near tropical' climate he enjoys and we visited gardening friends just southwest of Dartmoor en route to St Agnes and looked around their garden, so I'm pretty sure your tree's not been damaged by chilly winds, even if you're pretty high above sea level.
I think that prior to you buying your trees they'd been kept in a protected environment, perhaps a little shady, and then when you put them by your front door one of them in particular got so much sun that the tender leaves scorched.
For some reason the other tree wasn't affected - either the growth on the second tree wasn't as tender, or it doesn't get as much sun as the other tree.
What to do about it? I would leave it for now - the scorched leaves will dry and fall off - it'll look horrid for a while but the tree itself hasn't been damaged and next spring it'll grow new shoots and leaves. The tree will have been acclimatized to it's new home and the leaves will be tougher and shouldn't scorch in future.
Hope that's helpful
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
thank you for your input I was wondering about scorching but wondered why only one tree was affected. I will leave it and see what the spring brings. Yes we are lucky and glad that you come down and enjoy cornwall. As the trees get the afternoon sun and it can get quite hot out the front do you think we h ave made a mistake.
Privet are quite tough - I've seen them survive in areas of France where they get strong sunlight and little rain from time to time. I really think that the problem in your case was one of acclimatisation.
However I do think that the main challenge you face is getting the watering right - I think you'll do right if you give them a watering can full each when the soil an inch below the surface is dry. I've no idea how often that will be - and they will not get any benefit from rain because it will run off the leaves and not go into the pot.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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Oooh, lovely part of the world - we spend most holidays in Cornwall and have done for years - we were your way last summer - on the southern edge of Bodmin Moor and about 10 days ago we were at St Agnes. A regular and stalwart member of this forum is in West Cornwall and keeps us pretty well informed of the 'near tropical' climate he enjoys
and we visited gardening friends just southwest of Dartmoor en route to St Agnes and looked around their garden, so I'm pretty sure your tree's not been damaged by chilly winds, even if you're pretty high above sea level.
I think that prior to you buying your trees they'd been kept in a protected environment, perhaps a little shady, and then when you put them by your front door one of them in particular got so much sun that the tender leaves scorched.
For some reason the other tree wasn't affected - either the growth on the second tree wasn't as tender, or it doesn't get as much sun as the other tree.
What to do about it? I would leave it for now - the scorched leaves will dry and fall off - it'll look horrid for a while but the tree itself hasn't been damaged and next spring it'll grow new shoots and leaves. The tree will have been acclimatized to it's new home and the leaves will be tougher and shouldn't scorch in future.
Hope that's helpful
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
thank you for your input I was wondering about scorching but wondered why only one tree was affected. I will leave it and see what the spring brings. Yes we are lucky and glad that you come down and enjoy cornwall. As the trees get the afternoon sun and it can get quite hot out the front do you think we h ave made a mistake.
Privet are quite tough - I've seen them survive in areas of France where they get strong sunlight and little rain from time to time. I really think that the problem in your case was one of acclimatisation.
However I do think that the main challenge you face is getting the watering right - I think you'll do right if you give them a watering can full each when the soil an inch below the surface is dry. I've no idea how often that will be - and they will not get any benefit from rain because it will run off the leaves and not go into the pot.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.