Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. White spores will usually grow on infected box - Alamy The disease was first identified in 1994 at a long-gone Hampshire nursery ...

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 ...

The Grinch is not the only villain that shows up uninvited at Christmas. Boxwood blight, which has been found in about 30 Virginia counties, can deliver a dose of dieback to an unwitting landscape.

Pity the poor boxwood, that top-selling, round-leafed evergreen that’s been a staple of American yards since the beginning of American yards. Besides battling their way through a long-standing litany ...

Boxwoods (Buxus spp.) are one of the most common shrubs in landscapes throughout Greater Columbus. This deer-resistant, broad-leaved evergreen shrub is typically used in foundation plantings, as a ...

My heart sank when a neighbor told me that her boxwoods had boxwood blight. Boxwood blight is a fungal disease that is spreading rapidly across North America. Boxwood blight causes black spots on ...

The increasing incidence of boxwood blight, predominantly caused by the fungal pathogen Calonectria pseudonaviculata and its close relative C. henricotiae, poses a significant threat to ornamental ...

With the Christmas weekend over, you may be getting ready to toss out all the holiday greenery to make a clean start for the new year. But not all of those plants should be put in a pile by the road.