BOXWOOD BLIGHT!
It’s news I never wanted to hear, but I found out recently that I have the fungus that causes boxwood blight in my garden. By 2019, boxwood blight had been identified in 30 states, so it may be in your state too.
So I’m going through how I found out, what it is, how you can prevent it in your own garden and where I go from here.
00:35 How I found out I have boxwood blight
1:30 What is boxwood blight?
3:07 How did I know I had it?
4:47 Pictures of symptoms
8:13 What do you need to know about boxwood blight?
9:16 How to identify boxwood blight
10:15 How to prevent boxwood blight
15:10 What do I do now?
This video is far from comprehensive. If you’re looking for more information on boxwood blight, here are some sources to get you started, but it’s worth doing a bit of research, especially to look for information in your own yard.
❂ Blog post from the original project in this garden: https://www.theimpatientgardener.com/privacy-screen/
❂ Ironic blog post I wrote in 2019 about boxwood blight: https://www.theimpatientgardener.com/boxwood-blight/
❂ University of Wisconsin fact sheet: https://pddc.wisc.edu//wp-content/blogs.dir/39/files/Fact_Sheets/FC_PDF/Boxwood_Blight.pdf
❂ Virginia Tech Boxwood Blight Task Force resources (excellent info): https://ext.vt.edu/agriculture/commercial-horticulture/boxwood-blight.html
❂ Boxwood blight resistance by variety: https://www.bartlett.com/resources/boxwood-varieties-resistant-to-boxwood-blight.pdf
❂ USDA report on boxwood blight resistance by variety: https://meridian.allenpress.com/jeh/article/38/2/50/436815/Ranking-Resistance-of-Buxus-Cultivars-to-Boxwood
❂ Good Purdue University fact sheet: https://www.extension.purdue.edu/extmedia/bp/bp-203-w.pdf
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