Pyracantha Help

Got a Pyracantha (orange glow?) as a hedge but it does not flower much and when it does the flowers don't last and the flower look like they have been burnt and so no berrys. The hedge is 15+ years old,I trim in late Autum, the plants look nice and green but at some time in the year the leaves droped off and grew again, Is there any disese or bugs that can do this, i fertilizer it once a year but this is high nigtergen and high potash when i do the lawn, would like to get it to flower and have berrys, i do have honey fungus around that area were the hedge is, can any one help please

 

Just tagging this post Jiffy as I have a similar problem . The firethorn at the front flowers and produces berries - one at the back nothing

 

I'm going wayback to when my parents had pyracanthas and my father always told me they needed dressing with manure to ensure a decent display of berries which may or may not be the advice given here http://www.pyracantha.co.uk/planting-a-pyracantha-hedge

 

It could be infected with fireblight or, more likely, pyracantha scab, see http://www.pyracantha.co.uk/pyracantha-diseases for suggested treatment.

 

Thank you Scrungee and HsuH for the info, now i know a bit and what to look for

 

speaking from my own limited experience.....could it be just too much feed?

one of our neighbours has a completely & utterly neglected hedge of it on t'other side of our boundary fence & despite growing in poor clay soil without any care of any kind it still does be covered in flowers & berries each year we also had a big un' at the bottom of the garden years ago which was pretty much left to its own devices & never fed or anything but still put on a great show each year without fail

 

I see them here,in co op,council carparks,industrial estates ect,left to their own devices and always put on a good show.I bought one from wilkos but i think its passed on

 

I will have to try and turn by back on it for a few years