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alex_nosek

Gungurru/Eucalyptus Caesia

8 years ago

Hey folks,


After a couple of years in a pot, we planted our Gungurru last autumn in our new home, making this its first summer in the ground. It had been growing incredibly well, really thriving in the full sun. I had been watering it as per the suggested frequency for the tree's first summer. It had grown to 2.5ish m tall with a couple of bigger branches curving down in that iconic way.


Following those couple of intense days of Melbourne heat a week or two back, the large majority of the leaves are looking worryingly dry and near-death, though a small portion of the leaves have retained full greenness on segments of the leaf only. A handful of dried leaves have fallen off. The smaller branches still have that redness to them.


My partner suggests that eucalypts often do this in hot weather - ie. withdraw moisture from the leaves to store elsewhere in the tree - though I'm a worrier, particularly fond of this tree and wanted to get some advice on whether I should be worried and, if so, is there anything I can do?


Any insight hugely appreciated.


PS. the other thing to mention is that, a meter or two to side of the tree is a now-dead, but much bigger and older tree (Pittosporum tenuifolium - I think!). It died around the time of us moving in (perhaps we're cursed), but we have no idea how/why... not sure if this is at all relevant.

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