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Hi - Father-in-law planted a row of young Box plants (about 50) last year.
I noticed on the last visit that 5 of them (randomly spaced) were
totally defoliated. The leaves just looked as if they had fallen off as
opposed to being eaten.

Any ideas appreciated.

Thanks,

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Hi - Father-in-law planted a row of young Box plants (about 50) last year.
I noticed on the last visit that 5 of them (randomly spaced) were
totally defoliated. The leaves just looked as if they had fallen off as
opposed to being eaten.

Any ideas appreciated.

Thanks,

Jeff (NE England)


There is a problem with box going around these days that does that, called
"Box Blight" it may be that that you have. I believe there is a temporary
solution by drenching in fungicide but most gardens are now removing the box
and replacing it with something else. get it tested before taking drastic
action!
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Hi - Father-in-law planted a row of young Box plants (about 50) last
year. I noticed on the last visit that 5 of them (randomly spaced)
were
totally defoliated. The leaves just looked as if they had fallen off
as opposed to being eaten.

Any ideas appreciated.

Thanks,

Jeff (NE England)


There is a problem with box going around these days that does that,
called "Box Blight" it may be that that you have. I believe there is
a temporary solution by drenching in fungicide but most gardens are
now removing the box and replacing it with something else. get it
tested before taking drastic action!


Remove IMMEDIATELY the defoliated plants and any adjacent showing the
beginnings of damage, collect, bag and dispose of ALL fallen leaves then
hold your breath

http://www.rhs.org.uk/research/proje...drocladium.asp

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Hi - Father-in-law planted a row of young Box plants (about 50) last year.
I noticed on the last visit that 5 of them (randomly spaced) were
totally defoliated. The leaves just looked as if they had fallen off as
opposed to being eaten.

Any ideas appreciated.

Thanks,

Jeff (NE England)
Jeff does it look anything like these images?

http://www.rhs.org.uk/learning/resea...drocladium.asp
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Charlie Pridham writes

"Jeff" wrote in message
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Hi - Father-in-law planted a row of young Box plants (about 50) last year.
I noticed on the last visit that 5 of them (randomly spaced) were
totally defoliated. The leaves just looked as if they had fallen off as
opposed to being eaten.

Any ideas appreciated.

Thanks,

Jeff (NE England)


There is a problem with box going around these days that does that, called
"Box Blight" it may be that that you have. I believe there is a temporary
solution by drenching in fungicide but most gardens are now removing the box
and replacing it with something else. get it tested before taking drastic
action!


Have just read the article in this month's Garden which describes
Highgrove's gardener controlling it by a tapering rather than flat
topped cut, and cutting later (?September) - it's the young growth which
is affected most. Though this won't help if they are getting totally
defoliated.
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Jeff does it look anything like these images?

http://tinyurl.com/y86tq2





Thanks everyone for the quick replies.

I didn't have too close a look at them - just noticed all the leaves had
fallen off

I'll get him to dig out the affected plants and keep a few leaves for
me to look at.

Does sound like this could be the problem though :-(

Thanks again,

Jeff
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An Oasis wrote:

Thanks everyone for the quick replies.

I didn't have too close a look at them - just noticed all the leaves had
fallen off

I'll get him to dig out the affected plants and keep a few leaves for me
to look at.

Does sound like this could be the problem though :-(

Thanks again,

Jeff
(NE England)
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