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What are these plants lacking?
peweuk
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These shrubs appear to be growing healthily - but they also drop leaves frequently after they go a pale green, then yellow then brown before dropping off.
The shrubs were planted with a fish/bone-meal, compost and grit mix and are fed with a sequestered iron mix occasionally.
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What are the shrubs please? They may be lime haters in which case the bone meal may have caused this to occur.
It looks like common laurel. They don't need any special conditions they grow almost anywhere and on any type of soil. They certainly don't need a sequestered iron feed. They're obviously relatively newly planted. All they need is weekly watering until they establish, which can take some time. Transplant shock is the probable cause of the leaf discolouration.