Hello
We bought some established palms a couple of months ago and they seem to be dying already. See photo - they are canary island date palms from Gardening Express.
Does anyone have any advice on what went wrong, whether we can fix it at this stage of if they are just dead.
They were planted in John Innes no 3.
Watered quite well first few weeks but it started to look unwell and reading online and using Picture This suggested overwatering. We stopped for a couple of weeks and it seemed to get worse. Our gardener (use the term loosely, starting to think he just cuts grass for a living) said it’s definitely underwatered and he has given it a very good watering a few times a week for the last 2-3 weeks. And it if anything looks worse since. So no idea if it was overwatering, underwatering or something totally unrelated. We have 3 of them which all look like this.
Any advice so that at the least if we get rid and buy replacements we have some hope of not making the same mistakes again, would be appreciated.
If anyone has tips of what else we could buy pre-established about 2-2.5m tall with minimal requirements/which can be kept alive by the incompetent, please let me know! Ideally less than £300 per plant. We have minimal time to care for plants unfortunately and want something that will thrive in the south east of England without much attention (think we got it wrong with the palms as maybe they are more work than we’d realised).
We bought some established palms a couple of months ago and they seem to be dying already. See photo - they are canary island date palms from Gardening Express.
Does anyone have any advice on what went wrong, whether we can fix it at this stage of if they are just dead.
They were planted in John Innes no 3.
Watered quite well first few weeks but it started to look unwell and reading online and using Picture This suggested overwatering. We stopped for a couple of weeks and it seemed to get worse. Our gardener (use the term loosely, starting to think he just cuts grass for a living) said it’s definitely underwatered and he has given it a very good watering a few times a week for the last 2-3 weeks. And it if anything looks worse since. So no idea if it was overwatering, underwatering or something totally unrelated. We have 3 of them which all look like this.
Any advice so that at the least if we get rid and buy replacements we have some hope of not making the same mistakes again, would be appreciated.
If anyone has tips of what else we could buy pre-established about 2-2.5m tall with minimal requirements/which can be kept alive by the incompetent, please let me know! Ideally less than £300 per plant. We have minimal time to care for plants unfortunately and want something that will thrive in the south east of England without much attention (think we got it wrong with the palms as maybe they are more work than we’d realised).
