Hi Gerry, thank you for your advice recently about watering my horse chestnut trees. it seems to have stalled the dying leaves however i was just wondering from going through the website you seem to recomend not feeding some trees and feeding others. would there be any use in feeding my horsechest nut to help them along and why would i not? also these trees are incorportated in a lawn and therefore have grass up to the base of the tree should i spray around the trees and limit the competition from the grass? someone suggested that i should root with a stake wround the trees and pour water into the holes to allow extra water down? thanks
My question, i planted about 40 horse chestnut trees (10 years old) in October 2007, they thrived last year and had beautiful flowers early this year but since the hot spell the leaves are browning and appear to be dying. I'm now watering them but there does not seem to be any revival? will I fertilize the water? was it the sudden heat that caused this? will this set back my trees or worse? also my lime trees leaves are suffering but the ash and willow's are grand. My site is over 6 acres so they've loads of room and there are plenty of other trees around/in area.