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Posted: Oct/28/2007 1:59 PM PST
I have a bed (4 FT by 12 FT) with 6 3-4 year old Boxwood shrubs. One was attacked by some disease, turning the leaves yellow and then bone-dry brown within 10-12 days. After removing the shrub, the disease attacked another shrub with the same outcome. I am desperately trying to save the last three. Any ideas? |
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Posted: Oct/28/2007 3:36 PM PST
Welcome to GG from WI, neondion! I found a site with info about your poor boxwoods, hope it helps identify what it is and what you can do. I read over it quickly and it sounds as if you may be able to save the remaining three bushes, but that once the decline starts, it's impossible to reverse...Just had the same thing happen to three (maybe four) of my English Holly bushes this year. Thought it was because I'd pruned them back too far, but now one that I didn't even touch did the same thing...guess it's my excuse to shop this winter!  Thanks for joining us, and feel free to dig around!
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Posted: Oct/28/2007 5:42 PM PST
http://www.aces.edu/pubs/docs/A/ANR-0222/ http://www.boxwoodsociety.org/FAQ.htm http://www.ext.vt.edu/pubs/plantdiseasefs/450-614/ 450-614.html http://www.ext.vt.edu/departments/entomology/facts heets/boxmite.html http://hgic.clemson.edu/factsheets/hgic2052.htm These site have info that you may find helpful. If/when you copy and paste into your browser watch for an extra "space" or a "%20" that is added and delete it. |
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Posted: Oct/28/2007 8:31 PM PST
Hi from lake greenwood, sc and welcome to gg. Hope that you find answers that will save your boxwoods. I've never planted those so the closest shrub that I use to have was global junipers and spreading blue junipers. I redesigned my landscape, which I do quite often, & gave those to a friend. Happy gardening, gimlet |
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Posted: Oct/31/2007 9:59 AM PST
I agree with a caveat. If well established a boxwood will have a very extensive fine fiborous root system and can withstand some pretty extensive droughts.... what it can't handle is additional stresses on top of drought. I would encourage you to take some foliage and twig samples including yellowing and green leaves to your extension agent for a positive ID of a disease or insect agent. While a non-stressed box may well handle any one of the maladies and survive, a combination may well sink the ship. One stress leads to a weakened plant and prediposition to the other vagaries of nature. |
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