What’s wrong with this bay tree? Black tips

[Supersimkin7]

Just rescued from neighbour, pruned and watered. But these black bits worry me. Any thoughts, o bringers of life?

Hello Supersimkin7,

Theres nothing you can do about the wilted stem tips. Just take a pair of secateurs and remove all the affected foliage back to the healthiest growth to just above a leaf.

I notice you bay also has slight damage to the leaves as a result of bay sucker however most bay trees suffer from it at this time of the year but it does not do any real harm.

https://www.rhs.org.uk/biodiversity/bay-sucker

Happy gardening
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Is that indoors or out? It will be happier out of doors.

It looks as if it has been badly dehydrated.

I don't think the damage to leaves looks bad enough to worry about - the damage to the leaves that are still OK, not the wilted ones at shoot tip which are unlikely to recover.

Thank you sooooooo much - you’ve my day.

I am massively proud of this rescue and will obey to the letter. I have bug and fungus sprayed it and trimmed and given it 2 jugs water.

I carried it home through local streets after fainting at the doc, very smug here.

Made my day! Perfected my day, even.

Sorry for autocorrect.