On Wed, 27 Jul 2016 10:57:47 +0100, Chris Hogg wrote:

On Wed, 27 Jul 2016 10:32:30 +0100, Chris Hogg wrote:

On Wed, 27 Jul 2016 09:37:14 +0100, T i m wrote:

There are a couple of yellow / dead 'holes' on some of these plants
that have been there a while (apparently).

IIRC there is a fungus disease of privet (rust?) that has caused
problems everywhere in recent years, but I'm not very well up on it.
Someone else may be able to comment.


I've just remembered that what I'm thinking of is box-blight. I'm not
clear whether your mate's plants are privet or box, but here's a link
giving some info on box-blight. http://tinyurl.com/mp9u2vf

Thanks (I think that links takes one to the general site).

These are some articles from their site:

https://www.rhs.org.uk/science/pdf/p...mpages-onwards

https://www.rhs.org.uk/advice/profile?pid=96

Cheers, T i m