Box hedging (Buxus Semperviren)

[rogerzilla]

"These foreigners, coming over here, eating our box".

 

[GM]

Think they might have had it.
Did you see any caterpillars?

I've started cutting it back and there are 100's of these little feckers! ....I may have accidentally bisected a couple, revenge is sweet!

 

[furball]

You could try cutting it back and spraying (probably a few times) with an appropriate insecticide and see if it comes recovers but that risk is they will be back.
Box blight is a fungal disease. Once you have that, the spores are in the soil and there is little chance of being able to grow box in the same spot.

 

[PK99]

You could try cutting it back and spraying (probably a few times) with an appropriate insecticide and see if it comes recovers but that risk is they will be back.
Box blight is a fungal disease. Once you have that, the spores are in the soil and there is little chance of being able to grow box in the same spot.

They WILL come back, there is a permanent pool of adults from nearby untreated infestations.

 

[GM]

You could try cutting it back and spraying (probably a few times) with an appropriate insecticide and see if it comes recovers but that risk is they will be back.
Box blight is a fungal disease. Once you have that, the spores are in the soil and there is little chance of being able to grow box in the same spot.

Oooops, a bit late now, half of one of them is no more!