Beech Hedge

[colwoodlandcare]

At one of my customers they have become concerned with a few brown patches that the leaves have just gone brown and dropped off. The rest of the hedge is still green.

There is no fruiting body's around it and I've checked for signs of honey fungus.

Any other suggestions?

 

 

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[Treemoose]

BBQ at some point?

[Gnome]

+1 BBQ especially with the green left at the bottom.

[daveatdave]

i came across the same thing yesterday there looked to be a white powdery fungi on the back of the leaves that were left, the rest of the hedge was OK (side of the drive and definitely no BBQ

[colwoodlandcare]

No BBQ hear either. There is 4 patches spread out over 200m of hedge.

But it does look like heat or even as if it had been sprayed. Open to any more suggestions.

 

 

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[Shane]

This may be stating the obvious but,

has the other side of the hedge gone brown at the same places?

[Mortimer Firewood]

Got the same on one of our hedges on one side not the other.

[daltontrees]

It may just be drougght symptoms. Has it been particularly dry and maybe windy at the same time? Does close examination show that the damage is on isolated trees in the hedge? If so and if it is drought damage then there may be some underlying reason why those trees are not doung as well as the others, perhaps as suggested in Strouts something like compaction.

[Pat Ferrett]

Are the branches green if you scratch them with your thumb nail ?

Is there a build up of dead wood ?

Any coral spot?

It could be basal decay, stick the blower in there and check.

[Pat Ferrett]

Another thing to consider is as with most trees shrubs plants ect they may be the same fagus silvatica for example but can vary slightly from area to area, these may have come from different gene pools and as such deal with stresses differently.