There is a pest around at the moment that needs to be shown who’s boss! It’s the box tree moth caterpillar, and I was slightly annoyed that two presenters of the recent TV Chelsea coverage said that there’s no answer. If you have any box plants in your garden, you may wish to read this before digging them all up. The box tree moth caterpillar is quite striking looking with green and yellow stripes from head to tail, with black dots on either side. It has a voracious appetite, … [Read more...]
topiary troubles
If you have box topiary in your garden, then there are a couple of rather devastating issues that could compromise their health. The first is the airborne fungal infection known as box blight. It’s a disease that was relatively unknown in the UK before the mid 1990s, and no one is quite sure where it came from. It has certainly got quite a hold now, and this is down in part to the warm damp summers that we have been experiencing. Box blight has certainly been one of the garden plant … [Read more...]
