"Nick Maclaren" wrote in message
...

In article , "'Mike'"
writes:
|
| Our neighbour first noticed it in June/July when he was looking after
house
| and garden whilst we were on a cruise to Greenland, Iceland and Norway.
When
| we came home, it was half dead. Now in August it is completely dead and
we
| removed this afternoon.
|
| All plants around it are fine and healthy :-))))

That's what happened to me. In my front garden, I lost two buddleia,
a flowering cherry, a magnolia and other things the same way. Some
years on, a buddleia is doing find just there. Now, THAT was fungal
(or at least not bacterial) because I could see the mycelium. But I
have lost a chilli this year that way (it took a week) and there was
nothing visible.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

About 15 feet away we have a Flowering Cherry which isn't very well too!!
That has been 'poorly' for a couple of years now and is coming out in the
very near future. The silly thing is that there are plenty of other plants
and shrubs nearby and between the two which are fine and even a mixed hedge
between the two is fine!!

Maybe we should hook everything out, cover it with concrete and paint it
green. There are some wonderful plastic plants, flowers and shrubs about now
;-)

Mike