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Is my plum tree dead?

galinas
9 years ago

Hello!
I planted my Stanley plum tree 4 years ago - it was growing vigorously and last year gave me a little bit of plums first time. The problem is, it is still looking dormant now, if not to say dead. Scratch test on the main trunk shows some green, but the young branches - dry and brown. The buds(both flower and leaf) are dry and break off in the middle when you disturb them. The spot where tree is growing has a drainage problem that occurred after tree was planted. We widened our sloppy driveway in 2012 and after that all the water from the street going directly to that tree during a big rain. I was going to dig a drainage tranche this year around the tree, but looks like I am too late. So my question is - in that condition, is there any chance the tree is still alive and will emerge new buds or shoots from main trunk or skeleton branches? And even if this happened, does it make any sense to keep such tree in the garden?

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