A short six days latter and most of the foilage on the dappled willow has browned. I don't have alot faith with this plant at this point. I brougt this up with the nursery in which I purchased them from (this is the only nursery I've had problems with pot bound/girdling root shrubs, in fact 7 in total)...this what he said. "if the plants are not growing out of their pot, usually it means that they are either growing in too wet of soil ,or the planting bed does not have enough organic matter in the soil. Shrubs are different than trees and usually do not girdle themselves as they are always sending sucker growth up and making new roots from these suckers. Yes, ideally a person would like to have plants that are not pot bound, but that is next to impossible to find." Bottomline even with the couple plants out of warranty by a few months he is going to replace them...I thought that was quite classy.

What these look like to me are emerging "grown up" canes on bushes. I get these types of canes on climbers which, when babies, did not climb, but put out small canes. Suddenly, in year 2 or 3, these seriously large climbing canes emerge and shoot up. I do not know if your bushes are climbers or not. Sometimes non-climbing bushes can suddenly put out climbing canes. I would let them alone (stop "tugging" on them - they are very fragile when they first emerge, but get hard and stronger later if left alone) and see what happens. Your bushes could just be planning on being bigger than you thought they would be! Jackie P.S. - feeding the bushes could have encouraged this. However, Bayer 3in1 contains systemic poison that kills polinators and other beneficial bugs. I would just stick to rose food without any poisons in it. P.P.S. Another thought - look way down to where these canes emerge. Are they coming up from BELOW the bud union, or just straight from the ground a little way away from the bush? If so, they might be root stock (suckers) emerging from the roots. In that case, you need to dig down to where they are emerging off the roots and cut them off.

NC ... I hope it is not a disease. Talking about wilting, I see them any hot day with bright sunshine. I do check the soil ... it is moist !! Warum ?? :) Then I give them a drink ...they perk right up. Or when I don't when the sun goes down they are back to normal.It just happen yesterday, when we hit ~ 84F. Considering that the low the night before was 45F. Some of them get really droopy, looking like they are dying. Those are the ones with vigorous growth. This happens with the upper leaves, near the tip. Sey

I got a picture of the plant. It's between 2 other pepper plants that are totally unaffected. When I first planted this plant, I thought I had broken it's stem, but it seemed to not be affected by it. Since the other plants beside it are doing fine, makes me wonder if something got into the wound initially. As you can see, it's growing peppers just fine..........if it can just keep some healthy leaves.