Look very closely right at the base of the plants and see if anything is shooting. If you scrape back the bark ,if it's green then there is hope ( but no guarantee ) if it's brown then it's dead.
Are you sure it's the effect of herbicide? It looks to me as if it could be severe drought as it's the bushes that are under the big trees which will have taken all the moisture out of the soil just there.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Are you sure it's the effect of herbicide? It looks to me as if it could be severe drought as it's the bushes that are under the big trees which will have taken all the moisture out of the soil just there.
I took another shot from a wider angle. The trees are over the living laurel as well as the dead and though the living is smaller than the rest of the hedge, I think it would've been affected as well and there wouldn't have been a dramatic line between the dead and living laurel.
It's not the fact that the trees are over the laurels ... rather that in that particular area the roots of the large tree will have out-competed the laurels for moisture. Have the laurels been watered during the hot weather? They will each have needed several gallons of water a day in order to survive in that position.
The fact that the demarcation between the living and the dead is so clear indicates to me that the problem stems from the roots of the two individual plants and therefore drought is the most likely cause.
Any herbicide sprayed or poured will not have had such a clear demarcation as appears in your picture, killing all the leaves on one plant and none of those on the neighbouring plant, even where the plants are touching.
I really think that any hedge plants will struggle planted so close to such mature trees, particularly ones such as those with shallow and very thirsty roots.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I would agree with Dove there. If they’d been sprayed it would have touched the next door plants, the leaves are touching and overlapping. I think drought.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
It's actually quite easy to spray one plant in a line and not the next. You only need to spray half the plant for the whole thing to die and brown off.
Taragem have you any other reason to believe they've been sprayed?
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If you scrape back the bark ,if it's green then there is hope ( but no guarantee ) if it's brown then it's dead.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
The fact that the demarcation between the living and the dead is so clear indicates to me that the problem stems from the roots of the two individual plants and therefore drought is the most likely cause.
Any herbicide sprayed or poured will not have had such a clear demarcation as appears in your picture, killing all the leaves on one plant and none of those on the neighbouring plant, even where the plants are touching.
I really think that any hedge plants will struggle planted so close to such mature trees, particularly ones such as those with shallow and very thirsty roots.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Taragem have you any other reason to believe they've been sprayed?