On Wed, 21 Apr 2004 10:10:02 +0100, "Charlie Pridham"
wrote:


Don't panic! it seems well established now in Cornwall and is effecting the
evergreen oaks but not the English variety, its the Viburnums and Rhodos
that are being killed with camellias being eyed with suspicion for
harbouring it, We have been inspected twice now (no sign here yet) but don't
grow any of the worse effected species, the inspectors now reckon its been
active for at least 10 years before anyone noticed it. and at least one
garden is refusing to remove an effected Holm oak, apparently on the grounds
that they want to see how slowly it progresses!

Wonder how long gardeners have been noticing the odd mysterious plant
death? Very few gardeners do a proper post mortem or get one done, so
it's probably been around *much* longer than any of the staff the
ministry have got working on it. Hope they don't wreck too many fine
gardens before they discover it's been around all along - and isn't
actually doing an enormous amount of damage. They need to do a lot
more research before they do any more damage.

Rod

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