pcray1231 wrote:
Interesting on the cherries. I have a weeping cherry that didn't bloom or leaf out this spring. Probably will have to get it removed.
I blamed some weed killer 2 years back, but I'm not sure about that. Common area adjacent to it, that's managed by a landscaping company. 2 years ago they came in with weed killer on the grass, big pressurized backpack things and apparently a lot of overspray! Leaves on that side of the tree died, but the other side was ok. I also lost some plants from the vegetable garden and chose not to eat the rest! I complained to the association. We have a new company now, not sure if that's why, though, or maybe that was added to a bunch of other complaints. I dunno.
Anyway, last spring the tree bloomed and then leafed out fine and looked healthy. I thought it survived.
Then this spring, no bloom, no leaves. Wood still looks good, the weeping things are green if you break em. But no leaves. Just this week a small handful of small green leaves broke out. So I'm gonna give it a few more weeks. But it looks pretty bleak.
No caterpillars after it, though. Maybe a blight. Maybe the weed killer. I dunno.
Pat, funny that you would mention weeping cherry. Hey PPF, throw his guy a towel.;-)
Seriously though, I have two of those in the front yard, both are looking sickly this year after being loaded with blooms this spring.
sounds like yours are completely dead.
When you take them out, check and see if the idiot who planted them removed the bag or wire cage from the root ball before he planted them.
I've seen this a few times. They do fine for several years, and then start dying.
I may not be a real farmer, but I do have a green thumb.
In my last place, I did all my own landscaping so all did well. But a neighbor had a fairly large rhodo that was sickly. He wanted it out of there, so I told him I would remove it for him. When I yanked it out, and it did come out easily, I discovered there was still a wire cage around the root ball and it was choking the roots. Several large roots were girdled.
I removed as much of the cage as I could and replanted it on my lot, fertilized it, and it took off.
And at the farm, I have a Japanese maple that was dying. I started to dig it out, and discovered it had a plastic mesh bag around the root ball. I removed as much of it as I could without further damage to the roots, cut off the dead branches, and then pounded in a few fertilizer spikes around it. Very healthy now. that tree would cost hundreds to replace.
In addition to the two weeping cherry, I have several other shrubs looking sickly. All likely planted by the same moron...
Already bought the spikes. I'll try to save the weeping cherry trees, but a few of the others I might just yank out and replace with something else or smaller versions of the same. Some are too freaking big anyway, and one or two I just don't like at all.
I'll likely also try to save a bayberry. I hate that too, but I have one other shrub that I hate even more. It's some kind of hybrid dwarf pine. It's been trying to die for several years now. I mean, it wouldn't be bad, but a pain in the arse trying to dig the leave out if it every year.
Wife likes both shrubs and would like for me to try to save both.
But the stupid evergreen is in back of one of the outbuildings anyway, so you can't even see it from the house. I'll just yank it out of there and throw some rhubarb in the hole. I also hate rhubarb, but wife likes it.
Call it a compromise.
