conifers dying

magoogy

i have some mature conifers in my garden - one of the leylandii is already dead and over in the middle far away from it now one of my fancy conifers is dying too.........is anyone else having the same problem?? theyve been there over 10 years and its sad to see them go - not that fussed over the leylandii but my fancy one i am.....

peter_the_piper

You don't say where you are but it could be that at some time they have dried out. Here in the south we have not had rain for some months.

Jake'sGran

I only know of two things that make conifers go brown and die, cat's wee and high winds. Are they in a very dry spot? - that is something else that would make them perish.

We have an expensive conifer and I discovered that they like lots of water. After we started giving them bowlsful they started to get green around the bottom third where it always used to be brown. Wish I knew it's name.

peter_the_piper

Problem with conifers is that it can be dead a month or two before it actually shows as brown leaves etc.

magoogy

ta for your replies..........im in west yorkshire and weve just had the usual weather - lots of rain and wind and hardly and sun then lots of sun and no rain........i wouldnt say we are in a dry spot or unusually high wind spot but i do get a lot of cats in my garden - im the local playground for em...

ive been upping the watering a bit on the one which i may be able to save so fingers crossed.....

peter_the_piper

I have often seen a line of leylandii with 1 dead one in it, always in the middle of course. Sometimes they just die for no apparent reason.