Hi Judy,

I hope you can help me, I don’t know what to do 🙁 4 months ago we purchased a beautiful schefflera tree for our house entry area. The entire time we’ve had it, it has consistently lost leaves at a slow rate, but has always produced new baby leaves – both seemed to cancel eachother out. But now, it’s losing lots of leaves and I don’t know what to do 🙁 Some things that may shed light on the problem.

1. The front door is never opened, we always use the garage so there’s no draughts.
2. We live in Colorado. The temperature indoors is pretty consistent – between 70-80 degrees.
3. The attached picture shows the amount of light the tree gets. The nursery we purchased it from have very knowledgeable staff and spent a lot of time helping us understand how to take care of it, and said the light would be enough.

Watering has been very confusing. All the other large plants in the house need watering every 3-4 days because our summers are hot, and they are near windows. But our tree… well, 2-3 weeks can go by and the temp sensor we bought shows the soil is always wet (3-4 or 4). It seems to take FOREVER to dry out and we’ve never experienced that before. Last month, for the entire month is showed it was 4 – wet. I became worried and gave it some water after that month, and now it’s worse and losing even more leaves.

I’d really, really appreciate any advice you can please give u.

Thank very very very much!

Irini