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Will this conifer recover?

Windways137Windways137 Posts: 18
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  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,300
    no, conifers don't recover


    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 86,104
    I agree ... it will always look like that. Those trees only produce new growth from green branches ... once you cut back into the brown that's the best they're ever going to look  :(

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 86,104
    You are very optimistic Freddies Dad ... I do like that in a gardener  :)   ... but you are expecting a lot from those few little green bits ...  :/

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 86,104
    Camouflage netting perhaps?  ;)

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 11,661
    Is this brown side inside the garden or facing the road? If the latter, I would just live with it on the basis that you will only see it occasionally!
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • AuntyRachAuntyRach Posts: 5,101
    Agree that the brown will not recover. Good point from @Lizzie27 - if it's garden-side then you could put pots of climbers on the wall maybe? If it's there for privacy then you will miss it if you cut down - I don't think it looks that bad. 
    My garden and I live in South Wales. 
  • ButtercupdaysButtercupdays Posts: 4,462
    Or you could grow something over it. One or more of the Tropoleums would be perfect. Start with the annual T. peregrinum (Canary creeper) or even some of the ordinary climbing nasturtiums (T.majus) and then progress to the perennial flame flower, T. speciosum. None of them would damage what remains of the hedge, but they would give foliage and bright flowers to improve the appearance.
  • Windways137Windways137 Posts: 18
    edited March 2018
    It’s the boundary of our drive and provides security. I’d never even thought about growing something over it! I think this could work really well as further along the conifer still seems healthy. 


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