Trees

Plums do have off years but have to say yours looks very unhappy. I'd start with a really good watering and checking it over for disease. Have you done any pruning on it in the last year?

Early next year, before the tree breaks into life, spray it with a solution of 5ml of Neem oil, and 2 ml of washing-up liquid in a litre of water.

Vinca major (greater Periwinkle) tends to do very well under Leylandii hedges. They'll need watering watering for the first year or two - unless you get more rain than we do. It's tough as old boots once it has got going.

Hi all. First post so please excuse my ignorance! Just checking what these are on my small willow and if I need to get rid? Diolch-thanks Daf

They make a lot of noise when burning too!

First thing that always comes to mind with pot grown plants is the root ball drying out after planting. If it dries out it can be very difficult to re wet and its not easy to see either once planted. Is it possible that could have happened last year after planting, as you can often soak the...

Thanks both. New leaves are all to bottom. Top leaves just look like they are struggling along Pete.Will give it a good feed as suggested Infradig and see how she goes.Thanks again. Paul

I reckon just a spray a couple of times if you spot the caterpillars would be enough, just a normal trigger spray that says it kills caterpillars would work.Repot it into something a bit bigger and just water through the summer.My box plants had the caterpillars last year and are growing...

Hi I wouldn't give up yet

Sorry, but I don't think that is either a Ficus or a bonsai. The Ficus Benjamina bonsai below was my late mother's, grown from a shoot of my own 6ft Ficus in the image below that. If you compare the top of the trunk to yours Jules W you will see that the branches form naturally, whereas yours...

Yes. I am excited now!

Be careful when you stake it. Put the stake in at an angle, well away from the roots. You don't want to damage them by driving a stake through them.

Interesting read The new growth or the old growth is interesting.I'm not so sure about the Epsom salts, I spent years spraying and watering my citrus plants with it before one watering of iron sorted out the problem for me. Citrus are not considered ericaceous but they do seem to prefer...

Surely if that has a rigid stake put up to a certain height it will snap at the point you put the tie in the next gale.I know it's a different kettle of fish but it's what often happens with eucalyptus when young, they grow like the clappers and don't thicken up. My approach has always been...

We have planted several ornamental trees over the past year, one a Tibetan Cherry. All recommend daily watering to begin with then weekly then fortnightly for the first year. This is because the fine roots that take up the water are damaged in the transplanting and take the best part of a year...

We’re in central UK. The weather has been very dry. Going to check the bark as you suggested.

My Dad's 28 years old Monkey Tree has suddenly started going brown over the last few weeks. We live in England. He has tried to cut off the lower branches to aid the higher branches. The trunk also appears to be turning a brownish colour. He has recently put some weed killer on the grass which I...

ok thanks for your advice , after looking around at pictures of seedlings my wife got it wrong its a black pine ,, the cherry not growing at the momentafter i got the kit i looked on line to see how long it takes to grow fully it said about 15 years ,, along time to wait

I had a good look at it today and I am convinced it is dead. The place I bought it from has a 5-year guarantee but by the time I return it, courier at my own expense, and they send out a replacement, again the courier at my expense, it is simply not worth the hassle. I have ordered another one...

Thanks @pete , I’ll be out there in the morning come rain or shine and cut the branch off. So happy to know what to do. GC forum is such a great source of friendly advice, I don’t k ow what I would do without it.have a good evening. Tink