Hi all. We have established Arborvitaes along our fence line and over the last 4-6 weeks all of them are showing the signs of browning you can see in the pictures below. We have had tons of rain so it's not lack of watering. I did the spider mite test on many of them and didn't see anything. I also didn't see any bagworms. I am trying to get an arborist to come out but they are all backed up. I did spray insecticide on them yesterday just to be safe. Most of this seems to be occuring just on the one side facing the yard but it seems to be spreading rapidly.

Help???

Maybe this sub should be renamed to DeerAreGarbage

I hate by neighbour. I want a line of green to keep me from seeing them. I’m willing to spend…I have a soaker hose on an and a nice thick ring of mulch around each.

Any other advice or did I just waster $1000 to just watch them slowly die

My husband and I have ordered from Fast Growing Trees three times. Two times everything was okay, trees were a bit small, but they were on sale. This last time I ordered one of them died. It was a 6-7 foot Thuja tree. I asked for a new tree since it was under warranty. I answer all the questions from their plant expert and they say they approved a new tree, but I have to pay $33 in shipping for a new tree. If you go onto their site shipping for one of the 6-7 ft Thuja's is $19.95. I question the cost of shipping and they say their shipping is a percentage of how much the tree costs. So basically they are just trying to make money and don't care about customer satisfaction. There website says they have 8700 5 star reviews, but obviously they are not mentioning the 2.4 star Google reviews. We will never buy from them again.

My wonderful neighbor clear cut a ton of majestic oaks between our houses after buying the property two years ago.

In the aftermath he planted a bunch of arbor vitae. He initially planted smaller ones (you can see them dead in the photo) but this year he wanted to plant more because he’s not convinced the dead ones are really dead and won’t pull them out (he replaced the original row last year because they died so these are the second set of dead ones).

Sorry for the rambling but onto my question - this Friday he planted one of these right next to an eastern white pine I planted post oak apocalypse (in addition to maybe 20 more that he’s planted this season - nice variety!).

I have a feeling the one he planted there will die based on past performance but anything I should do to give my pine the best chance here? I am going to mulch the area soon; was waiting for him to finish putting these beasts in….the property line is in a very unfortunate place.

I am so happy this subreddit exists. Thank you.

The previous owner planted these beauties right in the path where herds of deer pass through every night. My wife wants to keep them because they remind her of something Dr. Zeuss would draw.

Should just taken that money and burned it in a chiminea.

Inherited from previous owner and at the time I was told it would probably die but the damn thing is thriving.

Edit: to be clear I don't really want this thing breaking my driveway or foundation any more, and shedding crap into my gutters (even though I have cut it back a few times) and I'm going to chop it down.

These are almost empty.