Trees

Is B&Q a good place to buy trees from?

My Jade Tree bloomed for the first time this year and we were just amazed! :D It is now 25 years old, a cutting from my sister's, and she said they don't bloom until they are that old :rolleyes: It lived on a verandah on the IoW for a couple of years and for the last couple here outside...

And I forgot to say welcome Gilly from Warrington. Sorry.BM

It could also have been the dryness of the weather when the flowers were out. I know from other posters in Dorset that they have had an extremely dry spring.

Well the day after I posted this the birds ate every single one of them!!It's a shame as they looked really pretty on the tree!

I would wait and see what happens. Scratch the bark with a knife and see if it's green beneath. If it is, then it is alive and the sap is still flowing :D . If its brown and dry then it's dead and can be cut back to a lower level where it is still alive. I reckon they will recover, but if...

I hope my Bauhinias will keep growing as they are in pots. They are barely 2ft high from seed last october.

Hi PalusrisIt looks the same as the picture in the link you gave me but it says that the underside of the leaf has brown growths corresponding to the red spots. Mine hasn't got that. It looks the same both sides. Maybe that is an early stage. --------------- shiney

The tiny black insects sound like Cherry aphids. They may well have beebn reduced in numbers by a harsher winter or something. The migrate from the cherry to either Galium or Brassicas and then return so if something broke the cycle then you would see fewer of them on the tree. Obviously any...

Yes. Nearly all the gardens, including ours, have junipers.I'll keep looking under the leaves.Thanks Palustris ----------- shiney

Thanks for your thoughts. I have been to the garden centre and it looks like root rot - apparently its going round Jersey at the moment - nothing to be done unfortunately. Anyway at least I know what its all about!

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Help!!I've tried for months for info regarding the safe splitting of my treasured Bamboo Tree,which i have to add badly needs repotting but i thought it would be easy..go on line get info then repot how wrong i was..Can anybody help!! :(

it does smell fruity, I wll keep an eye on it. Thanks

You will just have to be vigilant and remove any new growth as it apears. It may help to dig up any large collections of suckers and get at the offending root node but generally mowing or otherwise taking off the leaf will eventually kill the root. Rootout or similar chemical methods will kill a...

Thanks Hornbeam

we had terrible wind as well, not quite as bad as losing a tree fern but my jalapeno plant snapped clean off at the base. They were soing really well as well, about 2" long already :(

Point taken Pete...

Now is the best time to prune them. They won't be so susceptible to fungal infections and the wounds have time to heal before the cold weather arrives. Never prune them in spring, and don't cut too close to the collar as you can cause rot to get into the heartwood

Hi HoneyBee, yes averaging out I would say it was a 5 month on 7 month sleeping tree, perhaps bordering on the 6/6 in a good year.It was middle May before it opened with any conviction and I expect it to have lost its foliage by end of september, particularly as it has flowered and will...