Bay Laurel leaf problem

Hi All,

New here and fairly new to gardening to be honest. Moved into a new house in November where the developer had planted a row of what I presume are Bay Laurel around the fence in the garden. I’ve been a bit concerned for a few months about leaf colour. The new leave seem grey / ashen / tan. Older leaves are green but even some of them are discolouring yellow.

The next door neighbour has the same row of plants but theirs are nice a green!

The garden is east facing so maybe not so much sun in evenings. Didn’t get a worse summer than anyone else.

Haven’t seen any leave curling or things on the leaves to suggest bay sucker. And leaves are largely intact / not eaten.

Underlying soil quality is maybe not brilliant. I poked through the weed suppression layer and thought the soil was dry.

Plan is to take back the bark layer, work in some meal / feed, water directly and recover.

Anyone able to spot diagnose my problem from the leave discolouration?

Thanks in advance!

Conor

 

Hmm hard to say really but if it were me I would feed them a humic acid feed and spray the leaves with SB invigorator and check how that works.

 

I think your plants are Elaeagnus ebbingei rather than Bay Laurel.

Blackstart

 

I were just about to say they are E.Ebbigei until I saw blackstart post . They look fine to me maybe a slight bit of cold damage but nothing to worry about.

 

Frost damage ,I'd cut the dead stuff back, it's not going to green up.

New growth should be better, if it ever warms up enough for things to grow properly.

 

Thanks All.
You know, looking at E.Ebbingei images online it actually does look like what I have. And apparently it’s pretty hardy so should hopefully be fine in the soil I have.
Might still feed it anyway and keep an eye on it!