I have a dappled willow-hakuro nishiki shrub. It has white and pink flowers and is about 6ft+ high. I would like to trim it and propagate the plant to other locations. When is the best time to do it, and do I need rooting compound on cut stems? How long should cuttings be?
This can be done very easily, and usually without rooting hormones. They produce their own in the form of salicylic acid. They can be propagated easily in soil, sand, perlite, or water. It is best to use a 6 inch or greater cutting.
This article will help with the care of these trees: https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/ornamental/trees/willow/dappled-japanese-willow.htm
This article will help you to take cuttings: https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/ornamental/trees/tgen/how-to-root-cuttings-from-various-shrubs-bushes-and-trees.htm
have turned brown and slowly dropping off. It looks like a bare twig with new leaves at the end. It is planted next to my garden water fall behind he plastic liner about 8 inches. I have another willow at the other end of my pond and it is doing very well with new growth and bright green leaves. We have had more rain in Missouri than we really need for the entire year. I'm going to apply Vigoro tree, shrub and evergreen fertilizer today June 15. total Nitrogen is 16.0%. Please let me know if you have any better ideas to save the tree. Thanks, Steve
Yes, you will need a fungicide.
With wet weather comes many fungal infections. This tree is usually tolerant of disease unless it is too young. What can be done is to apply a HANDFUL of DOLOMITIC LIME and a TEASPOON of WETTABLE SULFUR to the soil around the tree. This can be done once or twice per year, if you know the season might be wetter than usual.
You will also want to spray the top with a fungicide. This article will help: https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/garden-how-to/info/using-fungicides-in-garden.htm
I noticed a green stem coming up from what I thought was the pot ( thinking it was a weed) but it is joined to the trunk of my willow tree x
You willow appears to have been grafted. The original top has died off, so you will not have the tree that you bought. It will be a different variety of Willow that was used for the root stock.
This article will help you to care for willows: https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/ornamental/trees/willow/grow-a-willow-tree.htm
Hi I have five willow trees in a row in a border, but one has completely died and now it seems the next one is also dying. The leaves are thinking out and turning yellow. It being watered regularly and in good soil? Please help
Yellowing does indicate watering issues; either too much or too little.
Watering. In general, a newly planted weeping willow requires 10 gallons of water applied two to three times weekly for each inch of the trunk's diameter. After the first month, you can reduce watering to once a week
https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/ornamental/trees/willow/grow-a-willow-tree.htm
Photo attached. There is a yellow powdery growth on the leaves and stems of our dwarf tree ... can you identify and tell me what I need to do to get rid of it? Please .
This is a rust fungus! They can be easy to get rid of, though. Dispose of what you can, then treat with a fungicide.
These articles will help:
https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/garden-how-to/info/using-fungicides-in-garden.htm
It has yellow leaves on it, paired with bugs that look like lady bugs but are hard and seem to have buried into the leaf. Is there anything we can do to save the tree?
By the way. The ladybugs or ladybirds as we call them are just the intermediate stage between larvae and ladybird so they help the tree by eating any aphids of the trees leaves.
Steve
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Melampsora rust is probably the answer. It's common on Willow trees and is a fungus that eats the leaves. If you collect the leaves as soon as they fall and burn them you may help fight against the spread.
Failing that you could heavily prune or coppice the tree and burn or remove from site all the foliage. This may rejuvenate it's growth. If it is quite a stressed tree anyway this may not be your best option.
Steve
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We occasionally trim our 3 year old Golden Willow tree 2 - 3' off the ground so we can mow under it. When we do trim the long whispy branches, we see a large amount of the whispy branches dying afterward. We are not removing any large limbs, just the long thin ones that hang down to the ground. We do this a couple of times throughout the growing season because the tree grows very fast. It varies which limbs die, some of the ones we cut and some even higher up that we did not cut. It is so beautiful if we leave it long and hanging on the ground, but it is killing the grass under the tree and that is why we want to keep it trimmed. Is it normal to have so many dying branches? Am I doing something wrong when I trim them? Any advice would be appreciated as this is my first weeping willow tree ever.
Every trimming will introduce a new infection if done at the wrong time, and with anything other than clean sterile shears.
It is likely that it is being pruned out of season, or with unsanitary implements. Make sure that you are pruning, either, in early Spring or during dormancy to avoid introducing infections.
This article will offer more information: https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/ornamental/trees/willow/how-to-prune-willow-trees.htm