On Dec 9, 3:40*pm, Janet Baraclough
wrote:
SNIP
The NTS also operates plant biosecurity measures. AIUI *the disease
spreads by spores on the wind , water droplets, or infected *leaves and
root fragments carried on human and animal *feet so you can imagine why
it hasn't been possible to contain it, *on a rainy windy site which was
walked on by hundreds of people and local wildlife. The public is now
excluded from known *infected areas but the disease is being detected in
a widening radius.

http://www.nts.org.uk/Property/13/Ne...perty/13/News/

* *The latest discovery of phytophthera kernoviae in native bilberry and
oaks in local woods *has caused great anxiety, First, that both species
are significant *in the Scottish *wildlife foodchain ; but even worse,
that pk might affect common *ericaceous plants such as native heather.

* The NTS is only the canary warning the miners of the unseen danger .
The disease must also be in other local *wild woodland and in private
gardens; the initial symptoms are not very easy for an untrained eye to
notice or identify.

* Janet. (Arran).

I feel ill reading this. I never properly recovered from Dutch Elm
disease (mental scarring; not dead limbs).

Des