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  • 02-12-2019 4:35pm
    #1
    PCros
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,079 ✭✭✭


    Hello all,

    This fella has been going darker and darker over the past 8 months and I'm just wondering is it actually dying or can it be saved?

    https://www.dropbox.com/s/6kggxup03p2j86e/J.jpg?dl=0


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  • #2
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,095 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    No, its mostly gone and they do not revive once they have got to that stage. Sorry, its a hopeless case!


  • #3
    PCros
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,079 ✭✭✭PCros


    Thanks for confirming - I thought as much as it hadn't grown either.

    If I was to dig up and replace are those bushes easy to start off in the winter or do I have to wait till better weather?

    Sorry I'm total novice here.


  • #4
    bmc58
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,094 ✭✭✭bmc58


    PCros wrote: »
    Thanks for confirming - I thought as much as it hadn't grown either.

    If I was to dig up and replace are those bushes easy to start off in the winter or do I have to wait till better weather?

    Sorry I'm total novice here.

    Looks bad,not a lot of hope I'd say.There's also a disease of "fir type" trees going around which leads to those trees slowly going brown and dying.Time to accept it and get rid of it.


  • #5
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,095 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Provided the ground isn't frozen (and it isn't) this is the best time to plant trees and shrubs. I suggest you do not plant another one of those there though. If it is diseased then the new tree could get whatever it is and if it is suffering from the site - which seems the most likely - then there is no point planting another. By that I mean that it is in a wind tunnel or in a spot that is not suitable for some reason, or maybe the ground was not well enough prepared - check there is a reasonable depth of soil and no lumps of concrete etc in there.

    Probably no harm to dig a good sized hole (the size of that corner area) and fill with a bag of purchased top soil, its quite likely just sub soil or sand or other poor soil left from building or laying the drive.


  • #6
    PCros
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,079 ✭✭✭PCros


    Perfect thanks for your help looksee


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  • #7
    nthclare
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,315 ✭✭✭nthclare


    Best thing now is spray it with snow decorate it for Christmas,a swirl of light's etc

    Burn it :)


  • #8
    PCros
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,079 ✭✭✭PCros


    I was actually only thinking of that! :D


  • #9
    nthclare
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,315 ✭✭✭nthclare


    PCros wrote: »
    I was actually only thinking of that! :D

    might as well give it a good send-off, I knew a guy in Blarney he painted his green and shaded it as well, giving it a real artistic look...
    Because he was attached to it, his dad gave it to him


  • #10
    fryup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,067 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    may it RIP


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