Trees

Yes, that’s rust Degsy Pick off all affected leaves and bag them....burn them if you can. I would also scrape away the very top of the soil and apply a thick mulch

No worries @Mike Allen - I just wish I had more 'heft'! And once the suckers start, as @shiney says, they seem to become very strong. I assume it's for cheapness that they are grafted on standard hazel? Same as with named wisteria and roses...

Yes, time to summer prune soon ....ideal time for down here but I suggest where you are to delay until middle of August eddy baby I would take a little off the growing tip, main stem tooOn the other branches cut side shoots on each of them to about 3 buds. You want to do it as the wood...

Prob as good as anything I could suggest VoobwmI suggest though enriching the soil before replanting I am as angry as you are about the scumbag arsonist......hope he/she was caught.Once caught the guy who regularly snapped off pieces of plants on the front boundary....to cut a long story...

@Redwing perhaps you should read a little more thoroughly. Ridgiemum quoted her introduction not this thread.Here's the link....i have no idea what I'm doing!!

Well said @HarmonyArb I was thinking a similar way, especially about the warning about branches. All trees drop branches but are rarely any problem.My tallest birch is over 50ft high and occasionally drops a dead branch but these always seem to be smaller, lighter ones of little...

Opps ..sorry. I mistyped I think when I was in a panic. The tree is 3 stories high and actually our building insurance says we can't have trees of a certain height so close to the building so we then made a decision to prune back the tree and we will keep an eye on it on a yearly basis.

My poor acer is still struggling to recover after the drought last year. I had to cut almost half of it out in spring as that much was just dead.This year it has tried to grow a good 10" all over, and did produce good leaves initially, but they all crisped and died in the end (black crisping....

Give yhe plants a good hosing down

Thanks for the picture. I think they will remain light in colour but there is a chance they might darken slightly with maturity and trimming but won't be as dark as the others.

@Dougyb83 You have nothing to lose by trying cuttings in the garden; I doubt if they know their not supposed to grow easily from cuttings. As for the seed I don't know: I think for a first go I'd stick them in a pot outside and see what happens. Mix plenty of grit into the soil in the pot and...

Thanks, Pete (and those who agreed with your comment). I feel a bit more confident now in giving it thorough cutting back, probably going back four or five inches in parts. I'll do it in stages over two or three Springs, doing one side first Spring, etc. It would have been a lot easier if it...

It wasn't the biggest tree but anyway...l'll keep watering it next year. Thanks again.

Thanks for the advice , im going to give it a try ! Hopefully i dont fail again lol

Thanks everyone

Shrubby honeysuckle (lonicera nitida). It's a classic hedging plant, looks a bit tidier than box or privet IMO, and whilst the flowers are tiny they do smell nice.

Hi @Steve Canham . The tree is as thick as the cane. I'm more than happy to take the cane away. I have a Salix flamingo that is roughly the same size and looks after itself quite nicely.The wind here is a problem. That's one of the reasons I've tucked the sorbus in behind the bin store....

I have a few mags. also tree hydrangea I prune. My method is------first I go inside the tree, I look for branches that are going straight up to the heavens, those I cut off. Then I look for what limbs are rubbing against each other, that will cause harm to the outer bark on one of them. I...

Although a lot of people cut back in the Autumn the conservationists (and Which? Gardening this month) say you should not prune hedges until the new year. This not for the good of the hedge but for the insects that live in them as it helps the birds with winter feed.