New trees suffering

Hi

I had two new trees, 5 mtrs plus high, planted behind a hedge in early December last year. They came into leave and were doing extremely well. We have now had over a week over very strong easterly winds and all the leaves on the two trees that are above the height of the hedge have died off completely. Can someone give me some reassurance that the trees will recover?

Thanks

Ann

 

I would hazard a guess that they are dying from thirst or just can't cope with the wind-what trees are they?

 

The ground is very wet, they are a silver birch and a fastigate hornbeam. We have had extremely strong winds and even some of the very large sycamores locally have been stripped of leaves. I am just worrying that as they are so new it could cause some permanent damage.

Ann

 

If they produced leaves, then it is a fairly safe bet that they have good established roots on them. That being the case they will almost certainly survive.

Birch is list as a 'pioneer' tree, meaning it will establish well in environments that many species would find a bit harsh, so they should be OK.

My Taiwanese mate told me an old Chinese proverb: The tree that bends in the wind won't break. I just thought I'd chuck that one in

 

I certainly hope so Clueless, my huge leyllandii bends, and until I can gather the cash to get someone to get rid of it I will be on pins worrying for my neighbour lol, but seriously, a lovely proverb.


It must be very windy where you are Silver, stripping the leaves off a tree.

 

We are on the east coast and is has been very very windy over the past week - I am only 100mtrs or so from the sea front. The trees however, are planted behind the house so should be fairly sheltered from the salt that blows across at times. I have an acer drumondii at the front that has been completely stripped, but it is about 10 years old and I know that it will eventually recover. I think that half the problem is that the winds have also been extremely cold, something quite unusual for this time of year.

 

I rekon they should be ok.

Remember that these sorts of repeated high winds arent exactly seasonal!