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Pieris brown not pink!

green fingered finchgreen fingered finch Posts: 278
in Problem solving
Does anyone know the cause of this? Our pieris usually has lovely pink tips this time of year but this year they are brown and crispy.

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  • green fingered finchgreen fingered finch Posts: 278
    Hm its not letting me add a pic
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,087

    Frost, wind?  Probably not drought this spring unless they're in a pot and have been underwatered.

    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • darren636darren636 Posts: 666
    My azaleas have been hit by frost

    The new growth was fierce red 2 days ago- almost on fire.

    Now its all brown and black
  • green fingered finchgreen fingered finch Posts: 278
    I wondered if it was frost, a.though I've seen lots of others around our area that look perfectly healthy.
  • green fingered finchgreen fingered finch Posts: 278

    image 

    managed to post pic. 

  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,087

    Looks like frost damage to me.    It doesn't take much, just a degree or so of extra cold will do it.

    Pinch out those brown bits gently with your fingers, prune out dead brown twiggy bits and stems with good, sharp secateurs and then give you plant a generous drink of sequestered iron and a mulch of ericaceous compost.  It will recover and produce new shoots a bit late.

    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • green fingered finchgreen fingered finch Posts: 278

    Thanks Obelixx I will try that ?

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