Thanks Barb, The first response also made sense. I have irrigation but looked today and found that a few key sprinklers are blocked by growing...
The dead Salal is only 5% of a healthy stand stretching along the waterfront. No sign of bug damage or drought stress in anything else.
I have large swaths of salal growing along a 3 meter bluff on the water. Several large patches have died to the roots over the winter....
