On Apr 15, 4:35*pm, Janet Tweedy wrote:
Now, it might be me but on several box balls in several gardens this
week i have seen new growth that is pretty weird. remember it looking so
curly and pale it's on all the boxes I've looked as so far and I
wondered if it was that frost we had or do box have strange growth at
the beginning of the year and I haven't noticed?
The tiny shoots look sort of very pale and tightly packed together.
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Janet Tweedy


You get this effect when plants have a slight dose of weedkiller
sometimes.