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Post by rainbowchaser10 on Jul 29, 2012 8:41:02 GMT 1
Help - one of the Birch trees in our garden thinks it is autumn - all the leaves have turned yellow and are falling off. Does anyone have any idea why this is happening - can't be lack of water after all the rain we have had over the past few months.
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Post by Ali on Jul 29, 2012 11:23:08 GMT 1
Help - one of the Birch trees in our garden thinks it is autumn - all the leaves have turned yellow and are falling off. Does anyone have any idea why this is happening - can't be lack of water after all the rain we have had over the past few months. Noticed that a similar thing is happening to our huge cherry tree, she's shedding already, but so is a neighbours cherry. We have a young silver birch about 15ft tall (was a rooted twig nicked from New Forest) will have a look at that coz they're normally pretty early to shed aren't they. Could be stress due to weather change? |
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Post by lib on Jul 29, 2012 11:34:38 GMT 1
I've got 4 silver birch, about 9 years old.
One is in severe problems and has lost over half it's leaves.
Local opinion is water logging.
Yellow and dropping leaves when not a fungus is too little water / too much water.
Lost one tree at 2 years 'cos it was in the path of water drainage from a higher field.
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Post by Ali on Jul 29, 2012 17:25:21 GMT 1
Good point lib !!
Have been down to check my little birch and she's fine though. A few yellow leaves but thats to be expected.
The cherries are definately shedding though!
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Post by <-Rinky-Dink-> on Jul 29, 2012 21:42:16 GMT 1
Our Cherry Tree is shedding too, and several of the other tree's leaves
are turning yellow. I think Lib is probably right... too much water.
In our area, at least, the trees turned green very early this year, and my first thought was that this was probably the reason that they were turning yellow and dropping leaves so early. But as I said, I think Lib's explanation is probably the most accurate.
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Post by Madame Moorhen on Jul 30, 2012 20:25:12 GMT 1
It's because it was wet then turned very hot and dry. My leaves were dropping because the soil had dried out. Doesn't take long with high temps. Probably a bit of stress too - we all flaked, so why wouldn't the trees?  Of course if it is still raining where you are then I don't know! But here it was like a desert. |
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Post by rainbowchaser10 on Jul 31, 2012 8:04:25 GMT 1
Think it must be stress as we had so much rain followed by a period of hot weather and the ground here is pretty rocky so does drain very quickly. Just strange it hasn't happened in previous years when we have had longer periods of hot, dry weather. Will go out and rake leaves up later - not something I expected to be doing on the last day of July!!!
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Post by Madame Moorhen on Jul 31, 2012 8:23:15 GMT 1
I've had that autumn like look here during prolonged periods of drought but that's to be expected. But I was very surprised last week to see leaves dropping like flies too! Hopefully the rain we had the other day and cooler temps will settle things down again.
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Post by meldrew on Aug 2, 2012 12:37:33 GMT 1
Yes we have the same problem with the cherry tree, but not with the wild cherries. Plus a new fig tree bought about a month ago has gone all yellow, it has been regularly watered but is on a south facing wall and it may be stress due to high temperatures over past couple of weeks.
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