Troubleshooting a Dead Arborvitae in Our Living Fence and Fixing The Problem

[MarkSimon-xeks]

I'm a pro Landscape Designer and was researching for a friend why her seemingly perfectly healthy arbs are dying one by one. Excellent video!!! Well done!

[johnclamshellsp]

Always great and very informative videos. YOU were the reason I got into gardening to provide delicious and extremely healthy food for my family.

[gabrielbayley]

i've been watching for a couple years now and always enjoy your content, but this might be your BEST video ever... it is exactly the format that I have been wanting to see. we all can learn from mistakes and wow, I've learned a lot from this video.

[francessiejkowski]

Perfect video for my problem. We lost 2 arborvitae in a row of 5. The remaining 3 are healthy. Apparently the two end arborvitae were not getting enough water as explained in this video. Thank you for explaining the causes and providing tips to avoid future problems,

[paolaarletty]

Thank you for sharing! For real my 4 arborvitaes in a hedge are going through the same thing. Even though I water them constantly and check up on them continuously, I have seen they are brown towards the inside. When I water them I notice the water slopes off. What I did is create a ring of soil around each one so that all the water gets trapped within the ring. This did help the water go down into the roots and not slope off. However, the best solution is to regrade the ground and/or simply add more soil throughout the flower bed in order to level it up. In our case, I think our flower bed just needs more soil towards the front because it does look low and the back side is slightly higher, which causes the downward slope.

[PhilThach]

A perfect walk-around kit for you, David. My favorite was the James, Tivoli Parking garage layers shot. Very creative.

[TheBoss-gcuk]

Im gonna save you 14:48 precious minutes and tell you it was lack of water 🙄😐

[HLT]

I had two Arborvotae that died on me and I found out that my Arborvitae had a spider mites that bore into the trunk of the Arborvitae and sucked off it liquid and so basically my two Arborvitae died. I was told to keep my other Arborvitae from dying of the same thing, to spray the other ones with a lite mixture of water with a little bit of Dawn dish soap in the water. It did work as none of of other Arborvitae has show any signs of dying. Plus it was not that they were not getting enough water as they are in a area that gets plenty of water.

[GregJGreen]

I have five 6 footers that are heavily browned this year, likely due to the high heat we had this summer in the Seattle area. I wasn't around to care for them when they needed it most.

They're second attempt replacements due to a trailer fire in the late 90s and are planted next to 30 year old Arborvitaes that are approximately 16' tall. The outer limbs are brown around an inch or two in, but the inner branches still look fairly healthy throughout. I'm giving them a deep watering every 4 days or so and keeping my fingers crossed. Hope I can avoid having to replace them a third time, it's been very frustrating.

[roberttoro]

Awesome video. Needed to hear this for my five new Emerald Green Arborvitae’s that were not getting enough water. Thank you.

[RamyVinesandHomesteadTimes]

Any clues on what might be happening if the rust color is near the center?

[AnglerNoypi]

Is the browning inside an arborviate during fall like right now normal? I have 50 arbor vitae all 3-4 yrs old now and they are close to each other.

[nancyinnevada]

HI, YOU POSTED THIS VIDEO ON MY BIRTHDAY A FEW YEARS AGO, THANKS FOR YOUR KNOWLEDGE 🦅💗🤍💙🦅

[Celestes_Nest]

My neighbors trees died too. We both planted the same trees around the same time. Mine look great. I brought in good top soil and created a berm for them. He didn't and planted directly into the clay soil. That berm helped retain that much needed water these trees need. The trees on my lot are now over 10 feet tall and have beautiful foliage. My neighbors replacements are barely 5 feet tall and still look like they're struggling. Poor trees. Thanks for sharing.

[DJDOUBLE]

I have a habit of mulching most plants and creating a valley in the middle where stem is to funnel water to plants. I've seen it done in our parks and boulevard plantings. Works great for me.

[carolinafine]

You know it’s a video with good info when many comments are pissing and moaning about the host’s presentation but the video still has a vast majority of thumbs up

[mdss]

I have a tree thats dying, its about ten feet tall, and dying, I was giving it water twice a week, but it began to rain often, so i stop, how czn i corrrt this problem?

[bjf]

Had the same issue and replaced one of my arborvitaes and increased the water to that specific tree by 2 fold. The new one has been doing well since it was planted in April.

[Iftekhar]

Can we have a more recent update on this Cedar tree (and the Cedar hedge overall)?

[fingersoup]

Not to confuse people but If you see your conifers browning on the inside and losing leaves during fall and winter, this is normal. Evergreens do lose their leaves, just not all at once. ^^