The first year it did well but the 2nd and 3rd year it lost its leaves in September. After researching this, I believe that when I planted it I set it in the ground too deep. I placed the ball close to a foot below the ground level. Is there anything that I can do to save this tree?
2007-10-20 05:17:01 · 4 answers · asked by lingham13 1 in Home & Garden ➔ Garden & Landscape
You will have to remove soil around the trunk until you feel it is the same as if you hadn't accidentally put it in too deep.
Some times you may have noticed trees in landscaped areas that have a little stoned retaining ring around them so the ground may be a foot or two higher than it is around the base of the tree. This is for the same reason. IE you can have a good healthy tree but it will get sick and eventually die if you pack a foot of dirt around its trunk.
Landscapers will use an open tree well if they are raising the overall grade but want to keep well established trees from dying due to the increase around the tree's stump area.
Here's a website I found that touches on the subject:
http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/extension/ornamentals/protect/protect.html
2007-10-20 05:38:44 · answer #1 · answered by andyg77 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
As Roger Cook on This Old House says ...plant 'em low and they won't grow!!!The top of the root ball should be at ground level...I would either replant the tree or as the previous answerer said, dig out a foot of soil and lightly mulch the tree but make sure the root crown (the very bottom of the tree trunk) is open to the air.You also may want to enlarge the hole size and put fresh, loose fertilized soil around it. Lets the tree roots expand
2007-10-20 05:33:11 · answer #2 · answered by jazzman 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I don't think anything is wrong with it. Sounds like you have a Sorbus alnifolia: Korean Mountain Ash. They lose their leaves in the winter. It is now time for leave to turn color and drop to the ground.
From:
http://www.treehelp.com/shopping/category-browse.asp?Category=1299
Has beechy gray bark, shiny dark green leaves that turn yellow, orange, and brown in fall. White flowers in 2-3-inch flat-topped clusters in May; 1/2-inch fruit, pinkish, orangish, red, scarlet. Perhaps the handsomest of all mountain ash for fruit effect. Forms an oval rounded canopy. Native to central China, Korea, and Japan.
2007-10-20 05:50:40 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
replant or remove the foot of soil and replace with mulch
2007-10-20 05:20:39 · answer #4 · answered by glenn t 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋