Re: Viburnum trilobum
----- Original Message -----
From: Carol L Cramer <cramer@pld.com>
what the heck happened to my healthy shrub I planted first of May?
.................
-----------
Howdy,
Did you water? New plants need a good deep watering every week. Another
thought ...
Dirr makes passing reference to a stem blight in the Manual of Woodies, but
I think it is much worse than he lets on. We planted 3 dwarf V. trilobums
(Alfredo was the only named one) and all of them start to die in the summer.
Usually it is limited to half the main stems, but one of them was completely
top killed so I cut down to the ground. They always come back strong the
next year. Another strange thing is this awful sickly-sweet smell that
comes from the dead branches! I have improved my cultural practices (and I
don't have many) for these plants anyway, completely removing branches that
show any signs of stress and removing all material from the immediate area.
So far no difference. I am very close to giving up and removing them. We
have neutral to slightly acidic (6.5) soils here.
For the shrubs that I cut to the ground, I get one year of good growth to
about 5 feet tall. The next year it grows strong to 6 or 7 feet (some dwarf
:-) and then starts to show the blight. Cut stems show a soft brown area
throughout so I assume it is a blight of some sort.
d:-)
Mark Stephens (markws@one.net) - Fairfield, OH Zone 5
----
http://home.one.net/users/markws - Our Backyard Forest
http://gilmore.pond.org - Gilmore Ponds Conservancy
----- Original Message -----
From: Carol L Cramer <cramer@pld.com>
To: WOODY PLANTS <woodyplants@mallorn.com>
Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 1999 8:08 PM
Subject: Viburnum trilobum
what the heck happened to my healthy shrub I planted first of May?
Live in zone 5, alkaline soil, semi-arid, -- so far our spring and
summer have had more than usual amt of moisture -- and so far, not as
many blistering hot days as usual....
the bed where it's planted is a hot, sunny location -- but has been
partially shaded the last 2 weeks by tall cosmos plants -- and my first
thought was the very hot site.
it's still alive -- but lost most of its leaves......
i mentioned we have alkaline soil -- but have added/tilled in a layer of
compost...
anything i can do to resuscitate it?!!
thanks...................carol
---------------------------------------------------------------------
To sign-off this list, send email to majordomo@mallorn.com with the
message text UNSUBSCRIBE WOODYPLANTS
