Katsura

Butterfly bush

How moist is the soil? They could just be drying up as it gets warmer, especially as you have sandy soil in a raised bed. They probably haven't had a chance to put down many roots yet.

The final two pictures are the same.

Hi sorry was in a bit of a rush when i wrote this post. I will get another couple of photos up soon but as you can see my cameras not the best.

Sorry eibren. I meant to say the ones in the raised bed are fine, its the ones that are just planted in the ground that are dying back. Your right with the roots though, they were not very established when i planted them. I live in Scotland therefore we at least have rain every other day so the soils always moist. The only thing i can really think of is the past week we had a couple of days bad morning frost the sun all day. could it be they have been sun scorched.

Bad morning frost would do it, particularly if it got down to mid 20s F...

Yeah its frost damage. Seeing it all over now, everything's growing to early because its really mild here. I have 5 different maples and 20 seedlings growing about 2 meters away from these 2 and all of them are fine. I am baffled. Anyways thanks again for your help guys.