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dying cherry blossom branches
lorraine82
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Please help, i have a cherry blossom tree but on 1 side some branches are dying and snapping off. The rest is budding nicely. it also has a new shoot growing from the trunk
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the dead bits need cutting off back to a healthy branch. Don't leave stumps, cut back the whole of a dead/dying branch to where it joins a healthy branch. Stumps and dead bits are where infection sets in
The support bands look too tight to me, that's just like putting a tourniquet on your leg, it cuts off circulation. A tree that size is probably holding the stake up, It shouldn't need staking at that size
In the sticks near Peterborough
thanks, i'll do those things. my tree does appear to be leaning quite a bit
Has it always been leaning or is that new?
In the sticks near Peterborough
its just leaning more every year. the roots are poking through the ground