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Is this box blight? (New here)

sarahodell79sarahodell79 Posts: 4
in Problem solving
Hi, new here and new to gardening...have spent quite a few £s on buxus balls and hedging recently. However have noticed two (which aren’t next to each other but close to other balls) have started with brown patches. Is this box blight? Panicking about it spreading! If it is, am I best to remove before it spreads? Or try and treat? Any advice would be gratefully received! Thank you!

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  • TopbirdTopbird Posts: 8,355
    Hi Sarah - welcome to the forum🙂

    Could be blight, could be other fungal disease, could be frost damage, could be other environmental stress damage (lack of water, food etc) so we need to see a couple of photos to be able to assess which it is.

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  • sarahodell79sarahodell79 Posts: 4

  • sarahodell79sarahodell79 Posts: 4
    Thank you! Hopefully the images have posted...
  • AnniDAnniD Posts: 12,585
    I think it's due to stress, you usually see it on box plants at the end of Winter especially if they've dried out over the previous Summer. 
    Lots of information here
    https://www.rhs.org.uk/advice/profile?PID=851
    Personally, I would trim out the worst sections and make sure they are fed and watered over the Summer  :)
  • sarahodell79sarahodell79 Posts: 4
    Thank you so much for the advice, very relieved to read you don’t think it is box blight!
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