Road side trees dying?

[Justme]

On driving through my nearest town (Pwllheli) I noticed that all the pollarded (some recently & some years old) sycamores seem to be dying off. Some have lost all the leaves & some just on one side / part. Then on returning home I spot a couple on the road side on the woodland edge that are the same but not as bad. The ones in the wood are fine. Initially I did think that the trees had been poisoned but on seeing the roads side woodland trees I discounted that as they could not have done all the roads in the area. Are they just getting into their autumn clothes early or is there a problem?

[skyhuck]

Could be salt, a hell of a lot was used on the roads last winter.

[Mesterh]

Has there been any utility work next to the trees within say the last 5 years?

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Drought has added to pruning stresses, lots of pollarded trees have gone over this year.

 

edge trees are more exposed to sun and suffer more than those in the cool forest environment, its been a tough year for trees.

[armchairarborist]

theres a lot of roadside syccies looking sicky round here at the mo.. leaves turning brown and curling up, i had to look up the date to see if it was autumn already:biggrin:, salt makes sense as well as lack of rain earlier in the year.

[Will Hinchliffe]

Are they dying or is it insect dammage ?

 

http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/tree-health-care/3029-whos-been-munching-these-sycamore-leaves.html

[William]

I've seen a lot of sycamore trees with brown curled up leaves this year from north Wales to Yorkshire. I know it sounds daft for the northwest of England but I think its down to drought in the early part of summer. I guess that next year they will be back to normal.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

I think that with all the recent rain the trees all got the respite they needed JUST in time and will bounce back, a few old beeches and oaks etc have been lost, but that is the way of life.

 

Ive seen cherries at critical wilt point just before the rains arrived, we shall see next spring what damage was done I guess.