"Bigjon" wrote in message
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Bigjon declared:
Ok, I have something to go at now - Thanks !

The worst "deader" is a Lilac within the bed that has the bootstraps, most
of the others (shrubs and trees) are apparently fine. From the replies, I
think I will have to remove all the soil to about a foot and replace it
with fresh ??


Waste of time - remove all soil to 1m depth in a 10m radius circle around an
infected plant and you can be reasonably confident it willnot infect
anything else - unless you were too slow that is!

HF is endemic in most woodland - but all the trees are not dead!

The best protection - as always with almost all problems - is to keep the
plants healthy and strong by keeping the soil in good heart.

ISTR lilac is a particularly susceptible species.

pk