With World Bonsai Day I celebrated the life of my tree…
As I’ve hidden this tree away from the Internet for a while and folk keep asking me how’s the Hawthorn. I thought I’d better post an update.
Sadly the tree has not been well at all… It tried to spring into leaf in mid December 2015. Of course the cold weather took what it had left. Three weeks ago I found one solitary bud which must have been taken off during the hail storms of recent weeks.
Having chatted to friends I decided to cut back the dead wood to see how far the issues were on the tree.
Before Cutting Back:
It became apparent the issues were as serious as i thought:
The more i cut back the more i got upset.
i decided to stick a couple of holes in the top and middle of the trunk to see what was going on:
I’m affraid my tree must sadly have died 😭
So gutted as this was my first Major Tree…
It’s had the best of care and nothing has happened with any of my other trees. So it must have been a systemic bug or disease of some description.
Words fail me…. 😳
Sorry about the tree 😕. I’ve been there as well.
It’s it great is it 😢
Not at all. I lost 2 of my favorite trees last yr at the same time (coming out of winter) so I had a double wham!
Oh no… Sorry. Winter here this year has been strange. Temps have been up and down surprised I’ve not heard of more losses
Same with here. We had 70’s in December/January and a lot of trees/plants started budding and then a blizzard hit and lots of extrmely low temps from February thru now. No spring at all!
Was 22c last week and 10c this week … Everything is growing fine now
Sad news. I have lost 2 but not as good as your.
Very sad news… Was hoping that bad boy would make Noelanders one year 😦
Start again with something new … 🤔
Hindsight is a wonderful think but would have the black plastic bag trick have helped if noticed sooner? Anyway sorry to read😑
Only found out about the black bag thing about 3/4wks ago 😦
Such a nice tree to lose,this game is hard sometimes
Thanks for your support 👍🏻… Wouldn’t mind if it was a twig in a pot 😩