My holly plant has a lot of black leaves or partial black from the cold winter in Ontario. Do I need to cut away the blackened leaves from the plant now that it is Spring?
They will, usually, resolve themselves, but it would not hurt to remove them by hand. You may want to add wettable sulfur and dolomitic lime to the soil to ward off any infection that may be present in the soil. It will be good for it anyways, but it is a good spot treatment as well as preventative.
My tree seems to be dieing a little bit every month. I have a leaf scorched holly next to it if that would do anything?
This tells me that there is likely an infection in the soil. Wettable sulfur will kill off anything that is able to be killed, so if this turns out to be something incurable, you will have to choose a new spot to plant in the future.
Hello everyone! I was at the Chelsea Flower Show here in London couple of days ago and found this cute plant in need of help. They were throwing her away and decided to take her home. Silly but simple question, do you know which plant this is? Thank you very much, Claudio :)
It is likely a relative of the Koehne holly. Maybe not the exact cultivar, since this can be hard to determine without already knowing it. But this is definitely a type of holly bush. Ilex is the latin name for it.
I have two approximate 4 foot tall holly trees that have loss approximately 50 % of their leaves over the winter mostly at or near the bottom of the trees. Would using Holly Tone at the bottom of the trees and watering them now bring back the leaves? Some of the branches are showing new growth at the top more than at the bottom.
Yes, use your Holly Tone fertilizer. And thank you for mentioning it. I wasn't familiar with it, but I just reviewed the label and I really like the composition.
Consider mulching the soil surface to help retain soil moisture through the summer, enhance soil organic matter content and biological activity.
This article may help you with general care and in assessing the leaf drop condition.
https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/ornamental/shrubs/holly/holly-leaf-loss-in-spring.htm
Yellow like branches on a prince blue holly tree and very thin growth
This appears to be a severe set of nutrient deficiencies. Does this get much sun? They will tolerate shade, but they need some direct sunlight as well.
This article will help you to care for these: https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/ornamental/shrubs/holly/growing-meserve-blue-hollies.htm
My holly bush flowered but when the buds appeared they all fell of
Can you include a photo? Has this ever had berries before? If not, then you could very well have a male bush. They will flower but not produce berries. It is necessary to have, both, a male and a female nearby to produce berries.
Alternatively, if there are not any other hollies nearby, which is unlikely but can happen, then there is a chance that it could be female but not getting pollinated.
One of my holly bushes has no leaves. The other one is green. Any suggestions what I should do to restore or is it too late for that.
Bend the stems to see if it is totally dead or not. Dead branches will just snap off and be brown or gray inside, living branches will be a little pliable and green and white inside. If there is still life to it, you can try hard pruning it.