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wrote on 15/4/03 8:30 am:

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Daft question, but what's honey fungus? Should I do anything in particular
to avoid it?

First of all, nothing is a daft question when you're learning a new subject
or if you don't know the answer in an old one!
Honey fungus tends mainly to attack old and rotting wood but it spreads
itself around fairly generously and attacks other, healthier things too,
eventually. The fruiting bodies smell of honey, hence the name.
Because it likes rotting wood, some people prefer to use something called
Root Out when they cut trees down. A hole is bored in the remaining trunk,
filled with root out and covered with a bit of old tile or stone to keep
rain off. Eventually, the tree trunk will disappear but it does take time.
When I found honey fungus in a garden of mine, we felled everything diseased
and ground the stumps right down to nothing.
There was a product, the name of which I now forget, which you could spray
onto affected wood or pour into a shallow trench at its foot. I have a
feeling it's no longer made but if it is, someone here will remember the
name.
None of this should put you off your garden or felling the leylandii, if you
think that's a good idea, BTW!
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Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.co.uk