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[quote=Anonymous]I planted a dogwood 7 years ago in my small front row-house patio, and although it flowers nicely, every summer its leaves would start to brown at the margins very early -- as early as June - and would be more than 50% browned by August.  Identical trees on the same block seemed to do just fine.  It didn't appear to be any sort of fungus or disease -- just browning.  I was getting to the point of considering removing it.  Lo and behold, it did perfectly this summer!  Leaves still almost entirely green.  And I did NOTHING at all - did not even water once or mulch or anything.  Theories:

1) The soil is very poorly drained and even watering just a few times like I did last summer drowned the roots and led to the browning? 
2) In previous summers, I worked the soil to turn in some compost and get rid of weeds in the spring.  I tried to avoid the dogwood root radius, but maybe I was actually harming the roots?
3) Gas leak.  Maybe there was a gas leak turning the leaves brown?  There is a tree in the tree box right in front of our house that also turned brown way early in the season, but did well this year.  Maybe a gas leak that got fixed was harming both trees?
4) Additional shade.  Maybe the additional shade from the quickly growing tree in the tree box made the dogwood happier?  [/quote]

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