Is my laurel hedging dying?

yllw.ldbttr

Planted around 3 years ago and other than the first few months I never had any issues with them.

About a month ago there seemed to be plenty of new growth, overall looking very green and healthy.

Last 3-4 weeks a lot of them are starting to going yellow. New growth is going yellow and dying, and so are some other leaves.
Been at least average amounts of rain too the past few weeks so I don't think it's too much or too little water.


Does anyone have any suggestions as to what I should do?


Pics below.

GrumpyMe

First guess would be lack of nitrogen. But...

Some possibilities here:

https://www.hunker.com/12558512/my-green-hedge-is-turning-yellow

And more Laurel specific:

https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/edible/herbs/bay/bay-laurel-turning-yellow.htm

macraignil

Plants will often take nutrient out of older leaves to put into new growth and late frost can sometimes cause damage to new growth. From what I can see in the photos that is all that has happened to your hedge and it should look fine again in a couple of months once the new growth has replaced the older leaves which should fall off once the plant has got what it wants out of them. Even evergreen plants drop some of their older leaves as they grow and the late frosts this year have had a bad effect on a good few plants in my own garden this year. The fact we had relatively mild weather in late winter seems to have made the frost last month have more of an impact than it would have had in other years. If the yellow leaves are annoying to look at then I would see there being no problem in pruning them off when you are trimming your hedge. I can't judge from the photos the hedge height but it looks like they are due to be trimmed back a bit and this should help them develop denser bushier growth that would look a bit tidier. It is easiest to keep a hedge at a height you can trim from the ground.

gozunda

GrumpyMe wrote: »

First guess would be lack of nitrogen. But...

Some possibilities here:

https://www.hunker.com/12558512/my-green-hedge-is-turning-yellow

And more Laurel specific:

https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/edible/herbs/bay/bay-laurel-turning-yellow.htm

Just a note there. The first link is laurel hedging - the second is sweet laurel - which is used in cooking. Not the same plant btw ...