Browse Forums Landscape & Garden Design 1 Oct 23, 2010 2:28 pm I had a large frangipani tree in my old house and I love them so I planted a little one in new garden - had leaves last year which dropped off in autumn, as they do, and one twig has new growth now, looks same as new growth I remember on old tree - but other twigs are sort of black and shrivelled. See pics below. Not sure what to do - do I just ignore bad twigs and let growth come through on good ones and hopefully they take over tree or should I cut them off - or is it a sign of a deeper problem which will eventually affect all of it? Tree is about 18 months old. No problems with other plants in garden. Branch with healthy growth: http://i272.photobucket.com/albums/jj187/nurselovescoffee/garden/DSC00245.jpg Branch with black yucky end: http://i272.photobucket.com/albums/jj187/nurselovescoffee/garden/DSC00246.jpg Re: Frangipani question. 2Oct 24, 2010 7:57 pm Nice finger I think that is the problem there There is a giant finger scaring the Frangipani It has been had by the cold. It will be fine Not sure if it has been cold much there but with cold and lots of rain it would be normal for a young or newly planted Frangipani to do that. Get a heap of straw around it rather than the pine bark, that won't be creating a rich new soil for the Frangi to get stronger and happier in Even the tree lopper stuff will break down to form rich new soil. The bark just sits there So what they hell do you do with it? Yell at it! Tell it to get it's S$%t together Then some yummy soil food like molasses, a thick layer of straw, seasol, powerfeed and a few handfuls of seamungus Once things warm up a little you can look at chopping off the damaged bits and when you do, clean the blades of the loppers or seccies with some metho between cuts. It will hug you with new growth and wonderful flowers this year if you do that Re: Frangipani question. 3Oct 24, 2010 7:59 pm Oh hell yeah! You guys have been freezing the nuts off brass monkeys all over Sth Est SA, so the poor thing has frost bite You can really use anything you want the main consideration would be how it looks once painted/finished - or the look you want. Cabinetmakers use MDF because its cheap… 2 9959 I would say both styles you have pictured are steel. The lower chord of the first pic would be a massive lump if made using timber considering the size of the rafters. If… 1 6151 1 13125 |