Broken at the base by an animal?

Resin

Something stepping on it? Big deer, medium dog, little dickens? Drinker?

tj

"Broken at the base by an animal"?

"Something stepping on it? Big deer, medium dog, little dickens? Drinker".

No broken limbs and fenced in yard...no stray animals or drunks passing through.

Dave

Given how healthy it looks otherwise, that is a stumper. Hope it clears up because that is a nice plant. Here is a mature one in the landscape of a recent ACS tour...

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...and up close

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tj

could be fungal ?

could it be stealth chickens in the middle of the night???

ken

PS: if you suspect that it might be diseased based.. insure that you clean your pruners in between snippings and plants ...

i have seen this on various plants in the yard .... and i usually fall back to the fact.. that being evergreen ... the injury could very easily been anytime since last fall ... since in the coolness of fall/winter/spring ... the evergreen just stayed green ... only browning once the real heat of summer set in ... i presume you would agree.. that evergreens.. conifers.. do NOT brown overnight .... think a 2 to 3 month dead severed xmas tree brought into the house for 2 to 4 weeks ... they stay green for a long time ....

In the wide-angled photo above, what is the pendulous cultivar immediately behind P.m. 'Sherwood Compact'?

Thanks!

PlantMarker

Ken... I suppose anything is possible. This is a new conifer ordered from Iseli and planted April 1st of this year. The real heat of summer didn't set in till two weeks ago. The problem started 6 weeks ago.
I am going to spray with fungicide. Nothing to loose at this point as there are no other options.
"i presume you would agree.. that evergreens.. conifers.. do NOT brown overnight" I would have had to agree with that until this one did..

"In the wide-angled photo above, what is the pendulous cultivar immediately behind P.m. 'Sherwood Compact'"?

I would think it is Picea abies 'Reflexa' with a prostrate growth habit.

Dave

I think Dave is right about P.a. 'Reflexa/Pendula' behind the 'Sherwood Compact'. I didn't get a close-up of it. So many conifers, so little time.

tj

I was at the garden. It's Picea abies 'Wingle's Weeper'.

Dax

I'd get that just for the name, which suits it wonderfully!
OK, looks matter too.

KarinL

I don't doubt for a minute that 'Wingle's Weeper' is the cultivar name. I see literally dozens of this conifer, they all grow in the same manner, form, or degree whether staked or grown on the horizontal. Each one given a different cultivar name.

I have one that is called 'Excelsa'. Looks exactly like 'Reflexa' and 'Wingle's Weeper'.

I don't know but I am suspicious that they are 'Reflexa'. I just can't see any difference appearance wise for all these look a likes to be given separate cultivar names.

I am sure there is somebody that can sort this out.

Dave