The relentless rain of the last few months is probably going to have a sting in its tail, because it’s going to encourage lots of fungal spores. One of the most feared diseases among gardeners is box ...

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 ...

Last year’s wet weather had already caused record levels of the blight, according to the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS). And the problem is set to get worse, with the two forms of the disease, ...

As we enter the season of advent, the need for winter greenery becomes ever more pressing. Over the past few weeks I have been looking at ways of keeping your winter garden looking colourful and ...

I clipped my box hedges this week and was delighted to see them looking in such good health. Well reasonably so, as for the last three years I have been waging war on the dreaded box blight fungus.

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 ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Last week I attacked box moth. This week I will have a go at box blight. The moth is controllable, as I hope I ...

As box blight and box tree caterpillars continue to damage topiary and hedging nationwide, the RHS offers some alternative plants which won't succumb. If your box hedges and topiary have been ...

Box hedging and topiary has become extremely popular. You can clip it tightly for years and years and it retains a neat, perfect formality that can be made to look modern or classic. But after two wet ...

Gardeners’ World presenter Monty Don shared a photo on Instagram yesterday of his box hedges. The gardening expert, who has over 847,000 followers on the social media platform, shared a video earlier ...