Fuzzypig

It is free to anyone who wants it! We live in Suffolk, near Ipswich XX

Crumbs Goaty - I am rapidly going off Laburnum! Toxic wood.. We have hens and ducks who scrabble around the bonfire site so won't be burning it then! Beautiful bowl Chunkymunky...our little tree might have made a wooden serving spoon to go with it!! I think we will have to take it to the nearby woods and hope some old witch takes it to make a new broomstick! XXX

Sorry - I actually meant to post a photo of it and somehow repeated my post ha ha!! Someone take me away, pleaseeeeeeee!! Chunkymunky..if you are local to Suffolk, it is yours! It has been rescued from the bonfire heap for the moment and if someone wants to give it a good home, we could not be more delighted!

Ooh...but it is such a sorry little specimen..barely 3 inches diameter My husband has laid it to rest on the bonfire heap - he said it is not even worth chopping up for our winter log store. Just a 'stick with twigs on' as he called it. XX

Ooh..but the trunk is (was) so spindly - barely 3 inches diameter! It is lying on the bonfire heap! Not even worth sawing up for our winter log store! I think, as a specimen of Laburnum, it only scored 1/10 :-)

Many thanks, treefrog - somehow I do not think it is the silver leaf thingy, having done some research - but the phytophthora root disease looks a promising culprit. The only odd thing is, as I said, the tree is up on a bank where keeping the area moist is the problem! However, I guess the lack of root is a bit of a giveaway... We have decided not to put anything in it's place - just allow the roses and shrubs to take over.

Hello! My first posting and I am wondering if someone can help. One of our laburnums, which seemed okayish last year, albeit a little bereft of racemes, has failed to show any growth at all and is quite clearly dead. It is a young tree, this would have been it's 4th year - and the trunk turned a sort of orangey colour in places (I am hoping I can attach a photo). My husband pulled it up a couple of days ago..not difficult because there was no root to speak of. We have another of the same age and from the same supplier, which is perfect. We wondered if there might be a reason our tree died. I have heard of root rot - would this have turned the trunk orangey though? All the other plants, including a Rowan, that are in the same area as the dead tree, are fit and well and we never use chemicals. The tree was up on a bank - so unlikely to have got waterlogged. Any suggestions gratefully received.