"Me" wrote in message
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Any advice? My new yard has some beautiful plants that were neglected
by the former owner. The dogwood is about 40 feet tall and the upper
third looks pretty healthy. The lower branches and leaves are quite
damaged by the disease although the trunk looks fine.

I've read about prevention (which I wish had been exercised here) and
control, but I'm not sure if it's a lost cause. Anyone have
experience combatting this disease? Should I spend a few years trying
to revive this tree or should I begin thinking about what to put in
its place?

Many thanks,
Samantha

Even if you choose to try fungicides to come to a stalemate with the fungus,
the tree will always remain infected and the dead and diseased portions will
not renew themselves. Injecting fungicide is expensive, and it only delays
the inevitible. I would personally take it down now before it could infect
any other dogwoods in the area (if that hasn't happened already) and replace
it with something else. No sense wasting a couple of hundred bucks a year
on something that can't be cured anyway, and if it's that tall, is probably
already near the end of it's shorter lifespan anyway.