Chive - VM is Virgin Media and I've had years of hassle with them. The long timers on here will know what I mean. I love that picture myself Chive. The odd dark brown bit at the back of the butterfly is the closed wings of another butterfly. They do love the buddleja!
My carrots and beetroots have all flopped too. You are definitely not alone. Box blight is awful, so sorry to hear that you have been struck by it.
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Chive I have a buxus hedge and keep looking to see if it’s diseased . So far so good . That’s not very helpful . But also I have a holly hedge (variegated) and that is doing very well ,fairly hassle free . I keep it short ( about two feet ) .
Chive, I second LB's suggestion of Lonicera nitida.
LB, is the air a bit blue re VM? Beautiful pic of butterfly.
I gave the car it's longish weekly run and went down the coast road. With the rain clouds coming over from Ireland on one side and low cloud on the hills, the road was about all to be seen. We have a yellow warning for rain.
Afternoon - just been enjoying a set by a comedy string quartet.They were fantastic and had the audience in stitches. Very different, very clever and very funny.
The Take That tribute act last night were quite good although the music isn’t really my era. The glam rock band on Friday was much more our cup of tea. Still had a good dance and sing-along though!
The silent disco was great fun again. Best bit was when they played Bohemian Rhapsody and, of course, everyone who was tuned to that channel started singing along. Remove headset to listen to a couple of hundred people each doing their own Freddie Mercury impersonation in a range of keys and tunefulness with no audible music - absolutely hysterical. And nobody could do it without all the fabulous Freddie gestures - brilliant!
LB - sorry VM is playing up again. They’ll never be available in my neck of the woods - but, if they were, I’d think twice about using them in light of all your problems.
Chive - if you need to keep your hedge low I’d think twice about the lonicera. I have it as an 18” high hedge around the soft fruit patch and I have to trim it every couple of weeks to keep it looking sharp - drives me up the wall. I know some people have used yew for low hedging.
If your box just has a touch of blight (mine has after the rain in June) you can use a fungicide on it or you can try feeding it regularly. Even if you lose leaves this year it should still resprout next spring. Chris Beardshaw swears by a fortnightly foliar feed of liquid seaweed. I feed BFB & chicken pellets tickled into the soil in spring and then try to do liquid seaweed spray through the season. Not sufficiently disciplined to be able to say I have a regular spraying regime though...
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LB, is the air a bit blue re VM? Beautiful pic of butterfly.
I gave the car it's longish weekly run and went down the coast road. With the rain clouds coming over from Ireland on one side and low cloud on the hills, the road was about all to be seen.
We have a yellow warning for rain.
The Take That tribute act last night were quite good although the music isn’t really my era. The glam rock band on Friday was much more our cup of tea. Still had a good dance and sing-along though!
The silent disco was great fun again. Best bit was when they played Bohemian Rhapsody and, of course, everyone who was tuned to that channel started singing along. Remove headset to listen to a couple of hundred people each doing their own Freddie Mercury impersonation in a range of keys and tunefulness with no audible music - absolutely hysterical. And nobody could do it without all the fabulous Freddie gestures - brilliant!
LB - sorry VM is playing up again. They’ll never be available in my neck of the woods - but, if they were, I’d think twice about using them in light of all your problems.
Chive - if you need to keep your hedge low I’d think twice about the lonicera. I have it as an 18” high hedge around the soft fruit patch and I have to trim it every couple of weeks to keep it looking sharp - drives me up the wall. I know some people have used yew for low hedging.
If your box just has a touch of blight (mine has after the rain in June) you can use a fungicide on it or you can try feeding it regularly. Even if you lose leaves this year it should still resprout next spring. Chris Beardshaw swears by a fortnightly foliar feed of liquid seaweed. I feed BFB & chicken pellets tickled into the soil in spring and then try to do liquid seaweed spray through the season. Not sufficiently disciplined to be able to say I have a regular spraying regime though...