Its good that you have highlighted this little known but devastating blight. It has denuded and killed a lot of holly in our two acre wood and affected several but not all of the varieties of holly that we have in the garden. I was particularly distressed at it attacking 4 standard plants of JC Van Tol which I had trained into mop heads on 6 feet high trunks. Here I did a lot of cutting out of diseased stems and sprayed with Signum, which we use to try and control Box Blight. The plants seem healthy again so there may be some beneficial effect of the spray, though I wouldn't jump to the conclusion that it is helpful until we use it more.
Thank you Ben for this compassionate point of view - it seems to me the big public forums mostly focus on the damage caused by climate change as it affects humans and to some extent endangers animal species, few consider the plight of plants...
Hi Ben,
Its good that you have highlighted this little known but devastating blight. It has denuded and killed a lot of holly in our two acre wood and affected several but not all of the varieties of holly that we have in the garden. I was particularly distressed at it attacking 4 standard plants of JC Van Tol which I had trained into mop heads on 6 feet high trunks. Here I did a lot of cutting out of diseased stems and sprayed with Signum, which we use to try and control Box Blight. The plants seem healthy again so there may be some beneficial effect of the spray, though I wouldn't jump to the conclusion that it is helpful until we use it more.
Thank you Ben for this compassionate point of view - it seems to me the big public forums mostly focus on the damage caused by climate change as it affects humans and to some extent endangers animal species, few consider the plight of plants...
Generally people are far more drawn to the plight of animals, and yes plants are largely ignored.
And yet the world of the animals is built on the bedrock of the plants.