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Mature beech trees leaves turning brown


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At a site i look after we have a small avenue of mature Beech trees and i noticed today at least 4 have started to shed dead leaves, the canopies are looking a bit bare, i have cleared the l;eaves up and will monitor for any more shedding

Any ideas as to what this is, ground is chalk , trees are probably 75 ish years old

Cheers

Mike

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Brought this up with my Boss as I’ve noticed it aswell, he mentioned he was talking to one estate manager type and they came to the conclusion it was frost damage from where a few warmer days in late winter/ early spring encouraged new shoots to shoot whilst at the same time still getting sharp frosts in the night leading the leaves to be scorched.

Near me a long a field there’s a line of mature beech trees and they all have it, some worse than others. Cant think what else it could be but we have had a warm winter along with sharp frosts at night.

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This  has happened within the last week, my trees are in a clump/small avenue , seems to be  the middle ones have it, very strange, but like you say warm days and sharp frosts, ill keep an eye on them

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I noticed, a couple of weeks back, that any of the various volunteer Oaks coming up the Moss, that had had the temerity  to come into leaf with the unseasonally warm April weather, were well tobered by the subsequent cold blast of air from the North.

The fresh green leaves looked more like tea-leaves. 

And that was even in sheltered locations.

mth

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