Hello,
We put in a lot of new landscape plants with 2 of them being the little lime light hydrangea trees the last week of July.
It has been hot! and we also got a large amount of storms with lots of rain! (West TN)
We have irrigation running each morning, and all the plants are doing fine, EXCEPT for these 2 trees!! They are in opposite locations in the yard but each started drying up it seemed. I suspected root rot b/c of the heat and then the amount of rain we got a few times. I had read that sometimes when dry and then too much water this can occur. I dug them up today and found that the roots were wet while the plant looks like dying based on leaves and blooms shriveling up.
However, I do not smell rot , nor can I see slimy roots ?? So Does that mean that it's possible to save them??
One tree was planted in a brand new bed with 3 newly planted gardenia shrubs and a pencil holly , and they seem to be fine.
The other tree is in a bed that already had a small dogwood tree and a rose bush and limelight hydrangea bush in it. Also, we removed old bushes that had been in this bed for 20 years! They were removed b/c of looks from just being old and serving their time.. in other words, things have grown just fine in this bed. ... so it just seems weird that these others are making it okay, but not these new Little limelights!
We do tend to have clay soil. We used a tiller and built it up with new good soil but my husband said he wonders if it's still too much clay and now acting like a tub holding the water. ??? (honestly, that would just be about the new bed tho, since the other bed has had bushes growing for years) It's very hot right now and I know they are probably stressed but still making it !!
these 2 limelight trees are only ones that are not !! ?? PLEASE help if you can!
