"Jeff0901" wrote in message
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Hi folks, this is my first post on your site after lurking about for
several months. I wonder is anyone could be so kind as to offer any
advice or opinion on the condition of my conifer hedge. I first noticed
the browning about the middle of February this year and it has got
steadily worse since. The hedge has been in for about 14 years and has
always appeared healthy. As you can see from the images it is healthy
above and below the browning. I stay in Central scotland.
thanks

I can't get your pics to download for some readonb ut the snippets of then I
can see made me think of the following....

Take yourself off to your local library and borrow the book "Beth Chatto's
Gravel Garden" by Beth Chatto. If you're a keen gardener in Britain you
probably know her name.

In that book (under 'Summer's Abundance') she has a large section on the
problems she had with a Leylandii hedge and then with the same problem
spreading to other conifers. She called in the Royal Hort Socy and was
given a lot advice by a lot of people until finally a visitor diagnosed to
problem correctly and they saved the hedge.

If nothing else, this segmetn of the book will give you a number of ideas on
what it could possibly be as a number of diseases/bugs/fungi are mentioned.
HTH.