Planted it back in March and it grew about 2 feet taller over the summer and produced a lot more leaves. It's now dropped down into the 60's and 70's in the daytime and 40's and 50's at night and I have noticed more leaves turning yellow and eventually dropping. I added a few jobes houseplant sticks around it a week or so ago (the little tiny ones) for some fetilizer, but other than that, it doesn't seem cold enough yet that t should be dropping leaves, or turning yellow, considering it's an evergreen. Any suggestions on what to do here or is this fairly normal??
2007-10-19 02:38:02 · 5 answers · asked by dalmatianguy2002 2 in Home & Garden ➔ Garden & Landscape
I don't know where you live, but our Southern Magnolias in the Mid Atlantic have dropped alot of their leaves. They go through cycles of dropping their leaves. Sometimes we think they are a lost cause they drop so many and then they come back as beautiful as ever.
2007-10-19 06:43:08 · answer #1 · answered by Sword Lily 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most evergreen leaves fall off after about two years. The plant is considered evergreen simply because it never loses all its leaves at the same time. A deciduous plant will lose all its leaves, usually in fall, and regrow them in the spring. Your magnolia sounds normal to me.
Do not fertilize any more until spring. The fert may encourage it to make new growth, and new growth in the fall and winter can get damaged on cold nights. If you still can, remove the Jobe's stakes which you put in recently.
2007-10-19 18:10:57 · answer #2 · answered by Emmaean 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Clematis montana, spring flowering, easy, hardy climber. Masses of pink or white flowers. Magnolia stellata, hardy to zones 4-9 , very attractive ,white star shaped flowers,spring flowering Magnolia. Easy. Most Magnolias are April/May flowering and Magnolia loebneri is a cracking plant, early flowering ,tons of flowers.
2016-05-23 17:01:42 · answer #3 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My large (20-30 yr old) magnolias are dropiing their leaves too. It is just that time of year. Plants don;t drop leaves because of the temps, but because of the shotening of the days.
2007-10-20 00:00:13 · answer #4 · answered by Deborah S 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I wouldn't be too worried about digging out that plant spike,(sorry bout that) seeing as you just planted your tree, I wouldn't get too concern'ed this year about leaf loss. That is unless of course they told you that it should not lose ALL of them and it does. I hope you planted it according to directions, ie protected and deeply. Call the supplier, it is normal for them to carry a one year gaurantee on tree specimens.
I wish you the best of Luck.
Bertram.
2007-10-22 20:40:47 · answer #5 · answered by timethrift 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋