PeteM123

Thanks all. I'll keep a close watch - give it a little water. All the other trees are fine and seems to like the dryer ground for some reason. FYI, I live in scotland and they normally get a good drop of rain every week. Will keep the leaves on and clear the grass away too. Fingers crossed and I'll not look at tinkering too much.

Hi All, Looking for some advice to help with my tree problem. We bought 10 expensive pleached photinia red robin trees about a 1.5 years ago...sadly seems our gardener didn't have a clue about planting trees and clay soil and one died after about 6 months. I then replanted all of them myself removing the clay soil as best as possible and improving the drainage. Most of them are doing fine but one isn't....it was massively over watered by accident and I didn't remove enough clay soil and mulched too much. I took it out and sorted the soil as well as drying it out....I inspected the roots and they seemed ok. Question is whether I should remove the leaves to help the energy of the plant or just leave it alone? I dont want to feed it but seems to be getting into a poorer state each day. Thoughts appreciated.