Ich hoffe, jemand kann helfen, zu erklären, warum diese Bäume in meinem Garten so viel gebräunt sind. In den letzten 5 Jahren ging es ihnen gut, aber in den letzten 6 Monaten haben sie erheblich gebräunt.
Ich bin ein völliger Neuling, wenn es um alle Dinge geht, die mit Garten zusammenhängen, aber ich hoffe, dass ich etwas tun kann, um sie zu retten.
Jede Hilfe oder Beratung wäre geschätzt.
Von: Leaf_in_the__wind
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I need to know too. I have trees that look the same.
Someone told me it’s from too much rain or flooding or water logging and the trees will recover.
Looks like Seiridium cardinale fungus. Can cause branch die-back of leyland cypress and western red cedar.
I had a few Leyland Cypress to be quite fickle. I had tress that browned on the inside and dropped leaves one year, but it came back. I would say hold out hope but this does look bad.
It might be a blessing in disguise!
Ok this is negative sorry and kinda rude but I am being slightly cheeky lol. But truth 😂.
Can’t quite tell if they are leylandii or Thuja either way… one of those trees will in the end take up that space…
Leylandii top out around 40 meters or 131 feet… with a spread of 8 meters when fully grown. They are FUCKING MASSIVE.
Thuja top out around 35 meters or 115 feet similar spread.
Whoever sold you that many of either for a hedge that small needs to never work in horticulture again 😄.
Normally you keep both around 2 meters and start pruning them to a hedge from 1 to 2 meters. They look like that are pushing 3 to 5 m already. You have lost control of them. You can’t prune them into a hedge now if you take them down to 2 meters the centre at the top will never fill in.
Basically you’re fucked and it isn’t your fault, garden centres and nurseries need to PROPERLY inform people just how big they get. Sorry but they will drain every last drop of water from your garden.
The brown bit’s are never going to regrow.
Plant native hedging Beech is king. It is also A FUCKING HUUUUGE TREE. But can be kept as smaller hedge as you want or a HUGE hedge.
Best advice cut them down now, grind the stumps out and plant Beech. It was over the day whatever nutter sold you them.
The soil level is to high, some of the trunk is buried to much and probably rotting
Mine are like that too. It came about after the winters storms. My tree surgeon friend attributes it to the tree being damaged by the high winds. The tree is coming down as it now looks unsafe. It is also a leylandii.
Really hoping my neighbours 15 metre high ones also get this soon….
Not going to lie. They don’t look great. You’ll get lots of mouth foaming posts about Leylandii but these are not Leyland cypress. But conifers are weird. If they do this they may recover but they’ll probably never look great.
pull the soil away with your hand and see if it is damp a few inches down. also check the trunks aren’t rotting. its likely they need a damn good watering and will recover but check first in case you do more damage.
You’re lucky you now have the perfect reason to get rid of them and plant something pleasant to look at that doesn’t kill everything below it whilst it wrecks the soil. Why people plant things they can’t eat is beyond me. Consider fruit trees, grape or even raspberry canes. Unfortunately Blueberry won’t grow in that soil as the trees will have made it acidic.
EDIT: I’ve been corrected and blueberry will grow in acidic soil. I was getting mixed up with gooseberries.
I have to say I have never seen leylandii planted in a raised bed
https://www.rhs.org.uk/problems/conifers-brown-patches
There are a number of reasons a conifer could be dying back like this.
I just had one conifer removed because it was half dead.
Nine years ago the conifer on the other side of the border removed itself one night. We just woke up to it laying on the lawn. It had shown no issues but then I wasn’t looking that closely at it.
We inherited them with the house and I was not sad to see them go. They don’t add much and you need to stay on top of pruning them.
Worst is the absolutely enormous Leylandii in the neighbouring garden. It kills everything it drops needles on and sucks the water out of half my garden. I hate it.
The soil is too high, as someone else has said. Burying the root flare on trees can cause serious issues and even death.
Have you watered them at all in this really dry spring? If you didn’t there’s a good chance it’s drought, there’s a lot of them very close together, and they’re getting big so they would need a lot of water to sustain them.
They won’t regrow, they may bush out, but the chances aren’t great for them ever looking really good.
The brown at the bottom you can essentially lift the skirt of the tree and just cut it out, but it won’t do much for the higher brown.
Those sort of conifers always do that. Made worse by poor conditions or drought but they all do it sooner or later
They are doing you a favour in the long run. They have served thier purpose and would only get too big from here. Time to chop chop!