box hedge disease
Last post 29-10-2009 5:59 PM by jaysgarden. 4 replies.
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29/10/2009 01:50 PM
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I seem to remember reading about a new disease affecting box hedges last year. I think it was a viral disease. I am unable to find anything when I search on the internet. It made the box go brown and then die. Can anyone help with the name of the disease, and if there has been a cure found?
Many thanks.
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29/10/2009 04:00 PM
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Box blight. First found in Britain in a Hampshire nursery in 1994, this fungal disease is spreading. The National Trust had to remove all the box at Buckland Abbey, in Devon (once the home of Francis Drake), and replant with Japanese, or box-leaf, holly, Ilex crenata. At Ickworth House, in Suffolk, which holds the national collection of box, they have dug out a whole perimeter hedge. The National Trust for Scotland has also had problems, and the box is gone at Geilston House, in Dunbartonshire, and at the Charles Rennie Mackintosh-designed Hill House, in Helensburgh, Argyll and Bute. http://property.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/property/gardens/article5579267.ece
Treatment: http://www.dgsgardening.btinternet.co.uk/boxblight.htm
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29/10/2009 05:24 PM
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thanks jaysgarden. The box plants I am concerned about have leaves that are gradually turning a rusty brown colour. The colour is in parts more of an orange than true brown. Several have already died. Could this be something else, like symptoms of water deprivation? Thanks again.
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29/10/2009 05:25 PM
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- sue1002
- Ipswich, Suffolk
- 06 Sep 2005
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This is the RHS info for Box blight http://apps.rhs.org.uk/advicesearch/Profile.aspx?pid=96
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29/10/2009 05:59 PM
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This is the RHS info for growing Box
https://www.rhs.org.uk/advicesearch/profile.aspx?PID=88
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