It could be that your Dwarf Cherry is suffering from Shot Hole Disease Tabitha which is a fungal disease and causes brown spots to appear on the leaves - which then turn into small holes. It could also be caused by one of the winter caterpillars which have been troublesome this year, but of the two the symptoms suggest Shot Hole Disease - which quite frequently happens during a very hot/dry period. Regarding treatment you will need to build up your Dwarf Cherry by feeding with a balanced base fertiliser - this needs to be carried out early spring time and also during the summer. Regarding your Dwarf Cherry looking spindly it could be shortage of nutrients and also growing in a shaded spot. Remove the second trunk. Timing is important! Remove it during the 2nd or 3rd week of August and not before. His knowledge is encyclopedic. After training at the under the then Ministry of Agriculture, Bill spent over twenty years at the Department of Biological and Environmental Services at Lancaster University. Now, he's a regular course tutor at Alston Hall, Longridge and Lancaster Adult College. Normally, the sap of deciduous plants falls in autumn to early winter, as the plants lose their leaves and become dormant. Many deciduous trees and shrubs are best pruned while dormant and bleeding isminimised at this time. I have a very large flowering cherry tree - about 40ft high - which is to be thinned and have the crown lifted. I have two opinions on silver leaf fungus disease; 1 tree surgeon says to wait until June, the other says any time is OK. What is your view? Bill replies...

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How do you trim a Japanese weeping cherry tree? Do you trim everything from the bottom so that the top remains? Bill replies... Cherry Trees come in all shapes and sizes Pam and quite a number of the larger species are very vigorous and the roots which are surface rooting, can be very troublesome if planted near a lawn. A lot will depend on what variety your Cherry Tree is. You mention your tree is conical shaped which suggests that it could be one of the dwarfer varieties and be far less troublesome. If you are still worried you could actually plant your Cherry Tree into a large container to offset this root problem.I have planted my cherry tree last June, and this year it started to flower. I want to know what find of feed should I use for it to grow healthy and how many times should I feed it during the season? Bill replies... The fungus produces white pustules ofwater-dispersed spores from the edges of the lesions in summer, and airborne spores from small red structures in the winter and spring. Both can initiate infections, usually through wounds including pruning cuts. Damage left by falling leaves (leaf scars), frost, scab disease, and woolly aphid are also routes for infection. But what about a situation in which you have just moved house and you’ve found a totally neglected fruit tree in the new garden? What should be done?

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Plants affected Birch, walnut, maple, hornbeam, Laburnum, magnolia, mulberry, poplar, Tilia, grape vine, Sophora I would wait until early March time Licas before repotting your Cherry Trees. I would use a soil base compost - John Innes No 3 - and mix with the No 3 compost approximately 25% of multipurpose compost. I find the multipurpose compost gives the No 3 compost extra texture and body. I did say wait until early March for repotting but as you reside in the Channel Islands you may need to repot slightly earlier - basically they need to be repotted before they come into leaf. Inclusion of a product does not indicate a recommendation or endorsement by the RHS. It is a list of products currently available to the home gardener. You will need to use a slow release balanced fertiliser Vasanthi and one of the popular brand products is Vitax Q4 which contains trace elements as well as the main nutrients. For more information on Vitax Q4 log onto www.vitax.co.uk You can also use Grow More which is also widely used or Fish Blood and Bone Meal.Your Prunus Avium - Wild Cherry - will grow to a height of fifty to sixty feet and produces in late spring profuse white flowers. With regard to your tree Allen if it is looking healthy I am sure that it will produce the flowers next year. Prunus Avium along with the majority of flowering Cherries produce their flowers late springtime. If your tree grows too large the time for pruning is early summertime to avoid infection from Silver Leaf Disease. The spores of the silver leaf fungi disease are transferred by wind on water droplets and are dominant in very moist damp conditions Dave and these are the main reasons why it is always advisable to prune Cherry Trees during the Summer months with June being the optimum month. Again with Cherries it is always advisable to treat the pruned branches with Arbrex Tree Sealant.

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I would like to ask for further clarification. The tree and the others have experienced the stress of reduction of size (no more than a third each year for four years) plus a recent drought and one season of a severe infestation of tent caterpillars. This tree is unfortunately placed in front of my house, so the appearance is a priority with this specific tree. The trunk which is left with the good branches should not be pruned the following winter. The tree will then be resettled.I have a two year old cherry tree which is pinned to my garage wall. The first year the tree fruited and looked healthy. This year the branches dont have any leaves until about half way up and any leaves that have appeared are badly damaged or eaten, also there has been no fruit. What is wrong with it and why is it dying? Bill replies... Often we hear the comment, “I have an old pear tree and an apple tree, but neither seem to do any good.” Let’s compare a tree to ourselves. If we don’t take care of ourselves and never go outside if and when we can, we gradually accumulate all sorts of problems too. You may say, what has that got to do with my fruit trees? Surely they are outside all the time? I have been noticing many cherry trees dropping their leaves early this year. Can this be due purely to the weather as on closer inspection all the buds are healthy. The leaves are yellowing between the leaf veins and also curling so their edges meet. They also seem to be abcising well. It just seems like premature autumn behaviour. What are your views? Bill replies...

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Please could you tell me why my dwarf cherry tree now has good foliage growing at the top branches but no foliage further down? Also it is inside since mid December and seems to be much happier? Bill replies... Canker is said to be more serious on wet, heavy and/or acid soils, so pay attention to drainage and raise the soil pH by liming if needed. Fungicides for gardeners (Adobe Acrobat pdf documentgiving further details ofwound paintsavailable to gardeners) Links Your suggestions make good sense to me, but I would like to ask if because the tree has been stressed four years in a row, would it be less traumatic if I took off only part of the selected trunk, plus one top branch of the preferred trunk this year, and then remove the full selected trunk one year later?” This possible gentler approach is shown in the diagram below.I have a small cherry tree which I planted last year. I am re-designing my garden and would like to move the cherry tree, am I able to do this without killing it if so what is the best time of year to do this? Bill replies...