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William Clifford
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Hi, I can't find much information on the above. The owner planted it on the day his mother died so wants to save it if possible! The gardener has been cutting the infected parts off over the years, but it's getting to the point that they are thinking to cut it down. What is the deal with this? Does it live on the tips so could be pruned out? Could it kill the tree eventually? - It has been like this for quite a few years apparently alongside with it being pruned every so often.

 

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@Khriss

 

Hi Khriss, just following up on the Cedar from August! The owner tells me that around late Spring it seems that it is the newer needles that fall from the tree and that they continue to fall all the way until the end of summer. It sheds enough that to sit outside they need to clear a load of needles away from one day to the next. 

 

They do have honey fungus in the garden... I don't feel like it's honey fungus though with the fungus and the tree having both been in the garden for years and this shedding of needles in the summer all that is happening to the tree?

 

Many thanks...

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It's only a small-ish tree. Maybe 30ft to the tips and a bit of a ball from a lot of pruning in the past. From looking at the tips and the lack of needles, I think that 'a lot' is probably a lot compared to a healthy tree ;)

 

Yes, apparently it hasn't been as bad this year as previous years, but yes the dead ends are more noticeable right now.

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More of a possibility , dead shoot tips pinkish , most Cedars in UK are susseptible ,

 

WWW.FORESTRESEARCH.GOV.UK

Inforamtion about Sirococcus, its symptoms and occurrence

 

 

May end up being a fell  :( K

 

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( as you can see Forest Research spelling is also crap........ )
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If its not a huge tree,  plant care will give it a few more years, if and this is  a long range, no guarantee  defilade shot  - watering and mulching to give a respite in hot summers, may let the  tree fight back for a while. Upto the point of it becoming  a Hazard tree . Thence fell. K

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