Garden Pests and Diseases: Evergreen Turning Brown, 1 by donna_in_ar

donna_in_ar wrote:
My evergreen (I think it's a Green Giant, or something close), planted 3 yrs. ago, has started turning brown. It's all over the tree. The brown needles are falling off. Two images are included, one a blurry close up of one of the pieces that fell off when I touched it. Can anyone please help with what might be causing this? I live in Arkansas, where it hasn't really gotten very cold yet, but we did have a dry summer with not too much supplemental irrigation supplied. Thanks.