Sunday, April 26, 2009

Shrub turn yellow, how to deal with it?

The shrub on one side of my house started to turn yellow since two weeks ago, the same shrub on another side still keep green, this is the evergreen shrub, with small red fruit in the fall, I am not sure its name.


Could you please help me out? Thanks.

Shrub turn yellow, how to deal with it?
Is it a yew? Yews are evergreen and get fall red berries. Yews hate to have their feet wet. Is a down spout or your sump pump pouring water onto that side of the yew? Divert the water source away from the roots of a yew. I doubt that it would be a fertilizer deficiency since its just one side of the plant. Fertilizer deficiencies affect the color of the entire plant, not just one branch. Disease signs like a yellow branch can show in just one area, multiple areas, or the entire plant depending upon the stage of progression. A disease usually starts in one small part of the plant and spreads to the entire plant over time. You can tell if its a disease if you monitor the plant and see that its spreading over time. Sometimes you can see fungal fruiting bodies develop. These will be dark/light spots, bumps etc. on the needles.
Reply:Coperas - an iron fertilizer. Or poke rusty nails (metal) around the drip line.
Reply:I think that your shrub could have a disease because my evergreen plant has started to go yellow, and someone said it has probably got a disease (for plants only) I don't know what the disease is called though, but you could look it up.
Reply:An acidic fertilizer may help, there are several to choose from for evergreen's. Also make sure the soil has good drainage around the shrub.


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