Box blight

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• K67 Posts: 2,506

  August 2020

  I'm afraid there isn't anything

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• Borderline Posts: 4,700

  August 2020 edited August 2020

  I agree with K67's comments. It does look like the brown looking shrub has either died due to drought or lost water due to the winds. Doesn't look like Box Blight. Sometimes, even identical plants with identical care can have different outcomes. Especially pot grown plants. You could chop into the inside areas to see if it rejuvenates, but by then, it may take quite a long time to re-grow. 

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• Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889

  August 2020

  I agree with the above comments. 
  Not blight, just neglect. 

  Devon.

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• kfczofo14 Posts: 2

  August 2020

  Borderline thank you for your response and advice! Much appreciated.
  hostafan1 as for your comment, grow up! We have looked after it exactly the same as the other one which we purchased together..if you can’t say anything constructive, say nothing at all. Or is this why you join these forums to be an idiot! Will not waste my time and energy commenting any longer....pathetic!

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• K67 Posts: 2,506

  August 2020 edited August 2020

  kfczofo14 said:

  Borderline thank you for your response and advice! Much appreciated.
  hostafan1 as for your comment, grow up! We have looked after it exactly the same as the other one which we purchased together..if you can’t say anything constructive, say nothing at all. Or is this why you join these forums to be an idiot! Will not waste my time and energy commenting any longer....pathetic!

  I was also told if you can't say anything nice say nothing at all.
  There is no call to be rude. Hostafans comment was just incorrect in your view.
  
  

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• Fairygirl Posts: 55,117

  August 2020

  Serious overreaction @kfczofo14. 
  The condition your dying box is in doesn't happen overnight, therefore @Hostafan1 is correct as you haven't noticed it's decline.
   Plants in pots need careful attention - especially in hot, dry  conditions which many areas have had for months, and which box doesn't really appreciate. Wind does almost as much damage as heat, sometimes more.
  That one will have had more exposure to wind/sun and lack of water as @Borderline says. 

  It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
  
  
  
  I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...

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• Dovefromabove Posts: 88,147

  August 2020 edited August 2020

  We frequently get queries from folk who have a plant on each side of a doorway where one is fine and the other is suffering. 

  
  

  Inexperienced gardeners think that by treating each plant identically they will get an identical result ... they neglect to notice or to understand the differences in conditions in the two spots ... wind whipping around a corner or a ‘rain shadow’ from a roof or wall causing localised drought. 

  
  

  Also in my opinion those pots are far too small for the plants ... trees need as much root room below as they have branches above. 

  
  

  Are they planted in a predominantly loamy compost?  If not that will also have contributed to the demise of the tree as ordinary multipurpose compost on its own is only suitable for bedding plants and potting on veg before planting out. It dries out very quickly. 
  

  
  

  To avoid wasting time, energy and money in the future perhaps seek advice at the start. If you don’t insult people and go off in a strop perhaps the experienced gardeners here, some of them with many years of professional training and practice, will be kind enough to give their time for free to advise you again. 

  
  

  
  Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
  
  
  
  
  
  

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