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Jun 12, We have two cedar trees in our backyard which have been turning brown and dropping lots of needles and small branches. Another cedar three houses away seems to be doing the same.

I see online that cedars are cedar tree dropping needles to drought and I have been watering them every day for the past month, but don't know if I can overdo that and if our lack of. Jan 31, Cedar trees turn brown, yellow or orange for a few reasons: Seasonal Needle Drop. It’s a normal cycle all cedar trees go through. Here’s how it works: around late summer or early fall, cedars and most conifers need to let go of older, interior needles that are no longer doing the tree much good.

Those needles turn yellow/brown as the tree phases them out and makes room for new growth from the tips. Rest assured that a cedar that’s only dropping interior needles. May 31, that tree is in trouble, drought stress for one, needle drop and die back is probably related to the lack of permeable surface! no mycorrhizea ect, lift as many slabs as your willing mulch and try to get some agaricus augustus fruit bodies to innoculate the rootzone. It's normal for Blue Atlas Cedars to drop a few needles during the fall months, but it's not normal for them to drop all of the needles at once.

Some of the causes of this can be over watering, under watering, overspray or overspreading of herbicides around the base of the plant, over fertilization, insects at the root zone, borer beetles, or spider mites. This cedar sheds needles in fall, and the needles die on the tree first - and you're right, it's the interior needles. But now we have a carpet of green needles under a portion of the tree.

These lower branches don't see much sun right now, but will in summer.

House built in - with the garage, the driveway has needed replacing for a long, long time. Jul 17, You can expect some needles to turn brown and drop in spring or fall. This is somewhat normal during this time of year. You may also notice some dead needles on the cedar tree. Cedars do this naturally when they're young and during the second or third growing bushleaning.bar: Cheryl Munson. Mar 18, Cedar trees turn brown, yellow or orange for a few reasons: Seasonal Needle Drop.

Coneheads, I have a Cedrus deodara that has three lower branches losing a ton of green needles.

Those needles turn yellow/brown as the tree phases them out and makes room for new growth from the tips. Rest assured that a cedar that's only dropping interior needles late in the season will look good as new by next spring.