tree died after crowning

[waterbuoy]

To me that looks like it was a very tall tree for the size of pot when you bought it.

[Stere]

 

Id coppice it at ground lvl 

 

 

Edited March 11, 2023 by Stere

[Will C]

wrong tree planted in wrong location, I would put money on either it was pot bound and didn’t like the drought last year or the man next door has some roundup and a paint brush. They are near impossible to kill by cutting them back.

 

what I wanted to say was: Result that’s one less giant euc to worry about in 10 year time you and the neighbourhood had a lucky escape there. 

[Grassyass]

Any one planting a none native tree that’s has has been brought into the country by the nursery as they all are can’t be to shocked when it dies in its first hard winter in the ground .

[Peter 1955]

Here in East Yorkshire, in the severe frosts of a few years ago, every Eucalyptus I knew of, bar one in a very sheltered location, turned their toes up. As to other reasons for its demise, I can't offer any help. 

[Dan Maynard]

1 hour ago, Peter 1955 said:

Here in East Yorkshire, in the severe frosts of a few years ago, every Eucalyptus I knew of, bar one in a very sheltered location, turned their toes up. As to other reasons for its demise, I can't offer any help. 

OP doesn't say where the tree is. Round here they grow big, we probably don't get the cold like you. As it says on RHS website mature size 25m, so if it needed reducing at 5m not the best choice of tree imo.

[daltontrees]

Guidelines for planting eucalyptus in the UK.

1. Don't.

2. If you do, don't expect it to survive a hard ground frost, unless you live by the sea.

3. Apart from that they're pretty hard to finish off, so cut back with impunity.

4. If you want it to look half decent, prune it every year without fail. Pick a height and stick to it.

5. Don't plant on shrinkable clays, they drink like fish.

6. Don't plant on the boundary, if your neighbours don't already hate you they soon will.

[greensampling]

Hi all thankyou for your advice. If this one has died I am drawn to the Japanese privet Ligustrum Japonicum Variegated Full Standard which seems much more hardy in the UK winter temps and has a max height 5m- more manageable. 

[monkeybusiness]

Just seen the pics - if the birch was also pruned by the same tree surgeon they know what they are doing, they’ve done a decent job there. 

 

Your euc definitely didn’t die because of pruning, and it was 100% the wrong place to plant that tree so the outcome was probably for the best anyway. My money is still on frost, but that could also have been killed by a disgruntled neighbour (though eucalyptus can be quite hard to kill off with glyphosate, so I’m leaning towards frost). 

[spudulike]

I had an Euc for many years and hacked it back year after year at any time of year to the point the trunk was some 10" and the height was around 8' with no issues at all. 

The thing that killed it was the new owner of our house did zero maintenance on it, the tree went up to 40' tall and he had it down in the end!

Oh....I got the logs and burned it...damn hot, lots of oil in that wood!!