Hello dear gardeners. I need help. I have a beautiful weeping blue atlas that has been in my garden for almost 3 years doing very well, but this summer it start loosing needles in one branch, then another, and now its getting to a 3rd one. They get brown and fall. I screeched the 1st sick branch and since I did not see any green underneath I assumed it was dead and cut it off. I was hoping to stop whatever is happening to spread to the rest of the tree. I am unsure if this was the right thing to do, as needles keep falling. Just recently I started spraying the tree with a regular flower anti-fungal I used efficiently for fungus. I do not see any bugs on the tree however I am not sure its a fungus neither. I was wondering if anyone has any clues of what it could be... Or if you know what could be the most appropriate anti-fungal I could use? Maybe one with a large spectrum to make sure I catch the fungus if that is the cause. I am so worry my very favorite tree may died. Would very much appreciate your help. I am adding some photos too. Thank you very much for your help, Alexandra
Any chance those are interior needles on the older limbs turning brown like they should be doing? Or is it the perimeter outside new foliage including tiny new stems - jouvenile growth?
