Mmmmmm, thanks for input both of you. I only noticed it last week but Brian said it has looked sad for a couple of weeks. It's got 3 trunks. It was supposed to be a duo plum, but the company sent us 2 separate ones as they said the quality of the duo's that year weren't good enough. The middle of it is okay, but I thought it was perhaps going from the bottom up! Or maybe its got fed up with 3 trunks so is killing off the outer 2 and keeping the middle one?
Brian said he pruned the tree last autumn, but not done anything to it recently.
I'm just going to pop down and break a twig , funnily enough, I didn't think of that, just assumed the leaves were dying. Back soon
Right, back after being interrupted by himindoors who urgently had to look at Ebay!
I must admit tht I don't look after my 3 fruit trees properly, so it's my fault. The apple tree does really well, loads of apples every year. The plum had 6 tiny plums on last year for the first time and the pear tree had 2 pears on it!
The plum tree has never been pruned properly, but I've always left tht to Brian as he knows more about trees than I do (supposedly!) There are 2 trunks coming up from ground level, then one of them splits into 2 about 3 feet up. It's this one that is dying. the single trunk is fine! Perhaps where it wasn't pruned properly when young, the tree now has too many trunks, so it wants to get rid of the other one which then splits into 2?
So we'll cut down the one which is dying, (and breaking off a small branch, it is dying, but not quite dead yet) and wait to see if the single trunk is okay. Maybe t will give me some decent plums next year!
But apart from some lichen, I can't see any disease anywhere.
It's not peach leaf curl Learner, My peach tree I had years ago had that, these leaves are not curled, just dying like they do in the autumn!