Itt Magyarorszag

Hi folks,

I was wondering if anyone would be so kind as to give advice on the below.

Basically, the neighbours have the same small lawn, which they astroturfed about a year ago. Since then, our trees have been losing their colour gradually and I am wondering whether this is what I suspect (they are dehydrated) or they need feeding. So perhaps each one just needs a few buckets of water to the roots?

Any advice or information is much appreciated.



Thank you very much,

IM.

Sachina

I had three very similar trees die last year, due to the dry hot summer. It might be too late to save them, but you could try by giving them a regular watering.

Peter_in_Hungary

Astroturf (and other artificial grass) is water permeable so I would be very surprised if the neighbours artificial grass prevented the small amount of rain we had last year reaching the trees.
However often when astroturf is put down often weedkiller is applied first. If this was over zealously applied then this could affect the trees but you would have a hard time proving it.
But to me it looks like they dried out last summer. I suspect that it is too late to save them. If you have had the amount of rain we have had recently then no point in watering now.
I would cut out the dead branches leaving anything that looks like it has hope or greenery and see what happens in the spring. And water in dry periods.
If you replace them do so with a drought tolerant variety.

Jack_Russells4ever

My money is on the application of Round Up or similar weed killer. I cannot tell if these are Leyland Cypress or not but many of the evergreen type tree varieties have mostly shallow roots that are close to the surface. I doubt water will help them at this point

Itt Magyarorszag

Thank you all. I'm going to give them a thorough watering, and see what happens. But for now I am banking on what Peter said, that they are passed it.

Thanks again.

wolfi

What kind of trees are they?
To me they look like "Thuja" (Arborvitae)which often are poisoned by a sickness and then have to be destroyed, sorry.
https://www.britannica.com/plant/arborvitae

Pulaski

Leyland Cyprus and Arbor Vitae are already too far gone when they look like that. Even if you can save what remains of the living part of the tree, they are incapable of regrowing green shoots, brown branches remain brown forever. So I wouldn't spend any effort in trying to save them - cut them down, grub out the roots, and plant replacements. The sooner you do it, the sooner you'll have your new hedge.