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PK writes:
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| 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.
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| 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.

Er, no. That sounds plausible, but isn't how fungi fit into the
ecology at all. Also, I have known garden that had it for decades
with only minor problems.

| 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

And I have had similar problems with another fungus in my garden.
Why daemonise just honey fungus?

Some plants are sensitive, and most woody plants become sensitive as
they get old - garden roses in particular are often on unnaturally
old rootstocks. In the wild, most roses are fairly short-lived.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.