Journal of Plant Pathology, Vol. 90, No. 3 (November 2008), pp. 581-584 (4 pages) In spring 2008, in a nursery located in the Como province (Lombardy, northern Italy) leaf blight symptoms were ...

There’s a new bad guy in the Bay Area, and its name is boxwood blight. It’s a fungus that infects plants in the boxwood family, and it can do serious damage. All species of Buxus, one part of the ...

Boxwood blight can be devastating to American boxwood cultivars, which are common in the Kentucky landscape. Complete defoliation can occur within a week and plants can die within a single growing ...

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 ...

In the 1990s, a disease, identified as boxwood blight, began affecting and often destroying boxwood plants in Europe. Both residential and centuries-old collections were casualties. By 2011, this ...

Nothing brings a sense of formality to a garden like boxwood. But thanks to common gardening practices, it’s vulnerable to disease. By Margaret Roach It’s time for boxwood-loving gardeners to learn ...

The record rainfall of 2012 caused an all-time high in reports of the fungal disease box blight, which causes bare patches and dieback in the widely used hedging plant Buxus sempervirens. The Royal ...

How do I recognise box blight? The most obvious symptom is browning leaves which then die and fall, leaving sparse patches. Twigs and branches may be killed though whole plants rarely die. It can be ...

My garden has evolved slowly over the past 20 years but about 15 years ago we made a decision, based upon the wet, grey winters, to create an elaborate and strong structure using mainly box - Buxus ...