Hedges

[Bazile]

My neighbour has 2 hedges in the front garden

These are 'proper' hedges , wide and tall

Anyway , both hedges have always been green in colour

However , I noticed last night that one of the hedges have 'suddenly ' turned yellow .

What would be the cause for that ?

[webbo3]

could be a potassium deficiency

[Atheist]

Maybe they are not evergreen? Do you kno what they are?

[Khandro]

Frost.

[bookbinder]

Why not ask your neighbour?

[jno]

plants grow old and die, it might be no more than that.

[choux]

Bazile, any idea if the 2 hedges are the same age and genus?

[Bazile]

//Frost//

What , yellow frost ?

[Bazile]

choux

The hedges have been there for donkeys - from the eighties

[Khandro]

Baz; //What , yellow frost ?//
No, the frost has burnt the hedge, even my yew hedge is looking a bit yellow through frostbite, it will recover in the spring

[Bazile]

khandro

Ok maybe so

Strange that in all these years it's the first time it's happened and we have had much worse frost than now

[Khandro]

Baz, With hedges & trees it isn't always the severity of the frost causing the sudden change in colour, it is the sudden contrast which can happen between mild & very cold temperatures.

The beautiful colours of trees in autumn are actually brought about by distress caused by the contrast between warm & cold temperatures.

At least that was how the magnificent colours of 'fall' in the Appalachians was described to me by a botanist type.