[Help] Gardeners Question Time.

[Jack Straw]

The climbing hydrangea and virginia creeper are growing well this year.
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That didn't take long to grow back. You'll need the people who did a good job of cutting it last time, back again in late autumn?

 

[Weststander]

Another chalkland meadow project coming along. Ten years I made a perfect football pitch for my son, but it was tedious relentlessly fighting moss and Bird’s Foot Trefoil. Now, no more fertiliser, scarifying or aerating, as last autumn I scalped it to soil level and seeded for a meadow including annuals for a nurse crop whilst Yellow-rattle and perennials establish.

 

[Coldeanseagull]

Another chalkland meadow project coming along. Ten years I made a perfect football pitch for my son, but it was tedious relentlessly fighting moss and Bird’s Foot Trefoil. Now, no more fertiliser, scarifying or aerating, as last autumn I scalped it to soil level and seeded for a meadow including annuals for a nurse crop whilst Yellow-rattle and perennials establish.

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The bottom picture is what my manicured lawn looks like

 

[bluenitsuj]

Any ideas why the following have gone completely yellow?

 

[WATFORD zero]

Another chalkland meadow project coming along. Ten years I made a perfect football pitch for my son, but it was tedious relentlessly fighting moss and Bird’s Foot Trefoil. Now, no more fertiliser, scarifying or aerating, as last autumn I scalped it to soil level and seeded for a meadow including annuals for a nurse crop whilst Yellow-rattle and perennials establish.

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That is stunning, call me old fashioned (and I really feel it in 2025) but I love a bit of lawn. Mine was dying on it's arse last summer, but has miraculously come back. I'd post a picture, but it's covered in cherry, wisteria and philadelphus petals at the moment

 

[Coldeanseagull]

That is stunning, call me old fashioned (and I really feel it in 2025) but I love a bit of lawn. Mine was dying on it's arse last summer, but has miraculously come back. I'd post a picture, but it's covered in cherry, wisteria and philadelphia petals at the moment

Mmm, cheesy!

 

[Jack Straw]

Any ideas why the following have gone completely yellow?

Without seeing it, and purely going by the photos, I would ask if there is adequate soil depth? Being against the house, there may be just enough soil depth to plant things, but underneath that could be concrete, meaning there's nowhere for the roots to go, and the possibility of either drought or water-logging.
If you did the planting, maybe you know? Were the plants (if in containers), soaked before they were planted? You must have at least a foot depth of soil with beneath that, the sub-soil broken up to aid drainage.
I would be tempted to remove a dead shrub (sorry, they are ), or two, and have a dig down to see what you've got, and see if the roots have moved out from the original root ball and if the soil they were in originally is bone dry.
Another theory is a gas pipe leak. https://garden.org/frogs/view/25925/
Unless someone's sprayed them with weedkiller, or tipped petrol on them, I can't offer any other explanation.

 

[bluenitsuj]

Without seeing it, and purely going by the photos, I would ask if there is adequate soil depth? Being against the house, there may be just enough soil depth to plant things, but underneath that could be concrete, meaning there's nowhere for the roots to go, and the possibility of either drought or water-logging.
If you did the planting, maybe you know? Were the plants (if in containers), soaked before they were planted? You must have at least a foot depth of soil with beneath that, the sub-soil broken up to aid drainage.
I would be tempted to remove a dead shrub (sorry, they are ), or two, and have a dig down to see what you've got, and see if the roots have moved out from the original root ball and if the soil they were in originally is bone dry.
Another theory is a gas pipe leak. https://garden.org/frogs/view/25925/
Unless someone's sprayed them with weedkiller, or tipped petrol on them, I can't offer any other explanation.

Thank you for your reply.

These are from a friend so I have not been able to see first hand but I would tend to agree about it possibly being very shallow being right next to the house and with it being a new build you never know what's been buried.

 

[Weststander]

That is stunning, call me old fashioned (and I really feel it in 2025) but I love a bit of lawn. Mine was dying on it's arse last summer, but has miraculously come back. I'd post a picture, but it's covered in cherry, wisteria and philadelphia petals at the moment

I’ve still got one, in another part of the garden.

 

[Weststander]

Without seeing it, and purely going by the photos, I would ask if there is adequate soil depth? Being against the house, there may be just enough soil depth to plant things, but underneath that could be concrete, meaning there's nowhere for the roots to go, and the possibility of either drought or water-logging.
If you did the planting, maybe you know? Were the plants (if in containers), soaked before they were planted? You must have at least a foot depth of soil with beneath that, the sub-soil broken up to aid drainage.
I would be tempted to remove a dead shrub (sorry, they are ), or two, and have a dig down to see what you've got, and see if the roots have moved out from the original root ball and if the soil they were in originally is bone dry.
Another theory is a gas pipe leak. https://garden.org/frogs/view/25925/
Unless someone's sprayed them with weedkiller, or tipped petrol on them, I can't offer any other explanation.

Roundup crossed my mind .. I know of two separate cases where spiteful locals did this to new hedges!