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.
--
Janet Tweedy

In article , Sacha
writes
Box blight? http://apps.rhs.org.uk/advicesearch/Profile.aspx?pid=96
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The RHS site image doesn't load Sacha but this is not dieback,
definitely not. It's more like new growth that is very pale and very
tiny and very 'tight' can't take a photo as my camera was one of the
things that got stolen in the burglary last month!
--
Janet Tweedy

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.
--
Janet Tweedy


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

On 16/04/2012 19:40, Janet Tweedy wrote:
In article , Sacha
writes
Can you do a Google on box problems in general? And are these young
plants or well-established ones? One of ours, which has been in for
years and is one of 6 in that area, is showing signs of trouble.


It's on well growing established box with no sign of die back etc. just
this strange tight new growth. I suspected frost damage but wasn't sure



Could it be Tortrix Moth damage? Sometimes this can distort new shoots.
Often, apical leaves are bound together to protect the caterpillar.

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Spider
from high ground in SE London
gardening on clay