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Help with a privet hedge and honey fungus
We’ve a section of privet hedge that has died and the heat of the summer has left us with 8 feet of brown sticks. Honey fungus seems the likely culprit. The gap is right opposite our front room so we’d like to have a hedge replace it as quickly as possible.
We could replace with privet, but would a honey fungus resistant species like round-leaved laurel, Prunus laurocerasus 'Rotundifolia' be better? It’s fast-growing, but will it look too different? Any suggestions welcome, especially from those who’ve had similar problems and found a solution. Soil is loamy and fast draining, aspect is due south.
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Are you sure HF is the cause and it's not just drought worsened by your fast draining soil?
Some RHS info here may help diagnosis-
https://www.rhs.org.uk/disease/honey-fungus
Billericay - Essex
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1. Look for honey fungus fruiting mushrooms around the base of the privet (a touch late in the season now)
2. Dig around and look for "boot-laces" about 5 in deep.
I have honey fungus, it's a B. I used to grow privet on extremely poor, almost pure, seaside sand. The ptoblem is probably not drought.
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