jimmyk5000
Seedling
I have an acer palmatum (not sure of the exact type but its red and comes from Nara) that has lived in London for c.5yrs. It has a healthy covering of moss and up and till recently has done very well with London tap water. I stop my weekly liquid fertiliser as usual around July.
However, recently it has started behaving very strangely..
In late August the larger leaves started to fade and wilt/ roll up. This is about a month or two earlier than usual. The vast majority of leaves were effected with older ones initially preferentially impacted. There didn't seem to be on obvious pattern to the distribution (ie an isolated branch) and now all the leaves are impacted. Initially, I thought I had under watered the tree but increasing the volume and frequency of daily didn't seem to help.
With great sadness I accepted that my tree was dying, perhaps from a root fungus of something..
A week of so later something bizarre happened, it rained (sadly not that bizarre for London) and as if by magic all the leaves unfurled and spread out their 5 points. The leaves appeared healthy again and stayed so for c.6hrs after the rain before returning to their previous rolled up appearance. Over the past month the same thing has happened every time it rains but not when I water the tree with Tap. In the past few weeks a few of the leaves started falling off but the majority remain attached and rolled up....until it rains again.
Does any one know what’s going on.. is it fungus…is it London's hard water.... is it the moss….is there anything I can do...
Please help!
However, recently it has started behaving very strangely..
In late August the larger leaves started to fade and wilt/ roll up. This is about a month or two earlier than usual. The vast majority of leaves were effected with older ones initially preferentially impacted. There didn't seem to be on obvious pattern to the distribution (ie an isolated branch) and now all the leaves are impacted. Initially, I thought I had under watered the tree but increasing the volume and frequency of daily didn't seem to help.
With great sadness I accepted that my tree was dying, perhaps from a root fungus of something..
A week of so later something bizarre happened, it rained (sadly not that bizarre for London) and as if by magic all the leaves unfurled and spread out their 5 points. The leaves appeared healthy again and stayed so for c.6hrs after the rain before returning to their previous rolled up appearance. Over the past month the same thing has happened every time it rains but not when I water the tree with Tap. In the past few weeks a few of the leaves started falling off but the majority remain attached and rolled up....until it rains again.
Does any one know what’s going on.. is it fungus…is it London's hard water.... is it the moss….is there anything I can do...
Please help!