Conifers Turning Brown

[sean]

Southern Conifers are not as hard as our Northern Conifers

 

you can afford conifers?

[Dean Lofthouse]

you can afford conifers?

 

Aye but they've had a hard life, their daddy conifers worked 30 hour days and never had enough nutrients to feed t'kids, they had to share one nutrient between three and their water uptake was out of a muddy puddle and thats when it wasn't frozen

 

 

 

 

Sorry for jumping in Lee, it had to be said

[armchairarborist]

soft southern conifers haha,

[Scouse Lee]

Graham - not sure which type they are but a customer of mine who lives next door says he's never seen it happen to them in all the years he's been there.

 

Stephen - yes defo noticed lots of unaffected species nearby, & I agree with the snow & frost theory.

 

Dean - as a northerner living down south I'm staying out of that one lol

 

They have defo not been cut back too much so that is out, must be the weather. But the big question is will they survive, I've never seen conifers die off that much & come back again.

[Gareth Dalzell]

Will they come back?

That may well depend on the which ones they are. Many will regenerate same as if they were cut hard. Unfortunately a lot of the garden hedging varieties we have like the Castlewellan Gold we get over here tend take it bad and never really make a decent recovery.

 

I noticed that the worst of the winter damage was done not when it was coldest but when it thawed a bit then got damp/wet and re-froze with a strong wind chill. More like a blast freeze affect. Certainly the Hebe's, Abelias, some of the Escallonia, most of the Cordylines etc survived being frozen over the Decemeber/January period but surcumbed to the wet freezing conditions we got in February even though the temperature reading in the yard wasn't that cold.

 

A photo and/or the type of conifer they are would aid the prognosis

[Joy Yeomans]

box virus? or red spidermite on conifer damage?