Nick Maclaren wrote:
In article ,
PK writes:
| Granity wrote:
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| It's not a problem on dead wood.
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| errm yes it is!
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| It feed of the dead wood and sends out bootlaces to find its next host!

Perhaps, but it's grossly overstated as a problem. If it were half
as lethal as is made out, none of the older English woodland would
exist.


in natural woodland there is a natural balance of competing fungi, in a
domestic garden that balance does not exist and HF can be very destructive.

I've watched it spread over 14 years in an arc across a garden i look
after in Wimbledon village taking out rose beds, azaleas/rhodos, a 30 ft
mature hawthorn. Armillatox seemed to help for a while, but eventually
HF won in an number of sections which are now herbaceous instead of roses

pk