[fight_truth_decay]

Always some new threat to gardens and growers. Gardening was supposed to be relaxing.

Wild fruit enjoyed for hundreds of years now at risk:

Another already spreading threat found for growers of cherries, strawberries, mulberry, plums, peaches, apricots, nectarines, Asian pears, currants, blackberries, loganberries, raspberries, marionberries, blueberries, grapes (both table and wine), kiwi (regular and hardy), persimmons, loquats, figs or any other soft-bodied fruits--[FLY]Spotted Wing drosophila (SWD) is a new pest in North America that has been imported from the far east. [[Daves Garden]

[dsrtsage]

This blight needs to get in line. A much more toxic blight invaded America 3 years and 2 days ago

[ApplegateRanch]

In addition to the boxwood blight, there's this.

Another already spreading threat found for growers of cherries, strawberries, mulberry, plums, peaches, apricots, nectarines, Asian pears, currants, blackberries, loganberries, raspberries, marionberries, blueberries, grapes (both table and wine), kiwi (regular and hardy), persimmons, loquats, figs or any other soft-bodied fruits--[FLY]Spotted Wing drosophila (SWD) is a new pest in North America that has been imported from the far east. [[Daves Garden]

Garden List ping worthy?

[Puckster]

Game over.......the fungus is caused by AGW.....just wait for it.

I’m almost 60....and I remember blights and so on that rarely made the news....now everything is tramatic.....drama in the news.....precursor to 2012!!!!!!!!

[BIGLOOK]

Virginia, Maryland, Rhode Island, Massachusetts and Oregon — and British Columbia.

But not inland areas.....yet.

We've discovered that the source of a lot of unwanted pests have been delivered by private jets. Passengers and their baggage do not have to go through the rigorous inspections at either end and create problems. But they're the elites, politicians, movie and rock stars, athletes and worst of all, environmentalists.

[ME-262]

I’ll keep an eye on my two boxwoods. Fortunately our Kansas climate is so dry and inhospitable that most fungi really don’t prosper here.

[Constitutionalist Conservative]

All of our boxwoods died this past year, but it’s far more likely because of the drought here in Texas.

[Vinnie]

There’s another pest making the rounds.
The Emerald Ash Borer.

My SiL’s neighborhood had ash trees lining the streets. Was beautiful.
The city came through a few months ago and cut them all down in an attempt to stop the beetle from spreading.

[MissMagnolia]

Boxwood blight ..... ruh roh! My uncle used to raise boxwoods so we have quite a few.

[left that other site]

Fungus Loves Florida.

I think it is our State Flower.

[wardaddy]

somebeaches are hard enough to get growing good as it is...

biggest ones I ever saw were at Maple Hall outside Lexington VA about 8 years ago

I hear they trimmed them back about 50 percent

they were almost to the 3rd floor of the old home and were said to date back a very long time

[teenyelliott]

Most of my boxwoods that were here when I purchased this place are now dead or dying, and I am in Kansas.

While it makes me sad that they are dying, it will give me an opportunity to replace them with something more useful.

[bgill]

Boxwood is my favorite hedge. Lost ours when we put in the new patio. The idiot contractor trashed them and we never had the money to replace them.

[Moltke]

shrubbery in Europe

Ni!