Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. White spores will usually grow on infected box - Alamy The disease was first identified in 1994 at a long-gone Hampshire nursery ...

Many gardeners are taking stock of their box plants. First they were infected with box blight (Cylindrocladium buxicola); then, when we thought we had sorted this by changing to the highly resistant ...

Picture this: Your once-vibrant boxwood hedge suddenly starts to wilt. The leaves develop brown spots, and then their lush, green foliage turns a sickly brown. That, my friends, is the handiwork of ...

Pity the poor boxwood, that top-selling, round-leafed evergreen that’s been a staple of American yards since the beginning of American yards. Besides battling their way through a long-standing litany ...

My heart sank when a neighbor told me that her boxwoods had boxwood blight. Boxwood blight is a fungal disease that is spreading rapidly across North America. Boxwood blight causes black spots on ...

The increasing incidence of boxwood blight, predominantly caused by the fungal pathogen Calonectria pseudonaviculata and its close relative C. henricotiae, poses a significant threat to ornamental ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Boxwood leafminer damage is most noticeable in spring and summer. Boxwoods (Buxus spp.) are one of the most common shrubs in ...

URBANA, Ill. - Boxwood blight, a serious fungal disease, has been confirmed in Illinois. According to a University Diagnostic Outreach Extension Specialist, two boxwood samples were submitted to the ...

With the Christmas weekend over, you may be getting ready to toss out all the holiday greenery to make a clean start for the new year. But not all of those plants should be put in a pile by the road.

A serious fungal disease that attacks a popular garden shrub has been found in Wisconsin for the first time, according to a release from the Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection.

Boxwood blight, a highly contagious fungal infection, has struck a number of locations in Colonial Williamsburg Historic Area, causing the removal of plants, some of which were more than 100 years old ...

Hello Mid-Ohio Valley farmers and gardeners! Fall weather has finally arrived as daily temperatures are forecasted to peak in the mid-70s. Many backyard gardeners are harvesting tomatoes squash and ...