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Launder all clothing, gloves, and shoes, and sanitize gardening tools. Do not compost infected boxwood material.Mulch the area to bury the remaining debris. If disease symptoms are diagnosed, immediately bag and remove infected plants along with fallen leaves.Send photos of suspicious boxwood symptoms to the Home & Garden Information Center’s Ask Extension service.Use landscapers and lawn care professionals who are educated about this disease and best management practices for preventing its spread.Ask if they receive plants from producers that participate in the Boxwood Blight Cleanliness Program. ‘New Gen’™, ‘Green Beauty’, ‘Nana’) from reputable nurseries. Plant disease-resistant cultivars (e.g.The fungus can remain alive in fallen leaves which can then serve as the source of infection for subsequent years. Repeated defoliation and dieback from stem cankers will kill entire plants.

The pathogen does not attack the roots, so larger plants may produce new leaves during the growing season but may lose ornamental value as defoliation becomes severe. A key symptom that differentiates boxwood blight from other boxwood diseases, such as volutella blight and macrophoma leaf spot, are numerous narrow black cankers (black streaks) that develop on the green stems.The first symptoms begin as leaf spots followed by rapid browning and leaf drop starting on the lower branches and moving upward in the canopy. Boxwood blight is caused by a fungus called Cylindrocladium pseudonaviculatum (synonym: Cylindrocladium buxicola).Many predators prey on voles, including black rat snakes, owls, cats, etc.ĭark leaf spots are a symptom of boxwood blight To reduce vole populations, mouse traps baited with apple slices or a peanut butter-oatmeal mixture should be placed across surface runways.

Boxwood hedge free#

Keep boxwood plantings free of weeds which provide protection for the voles. Deep mulch provides a good habitat for voles. Use no more than one inch of mulch around boxwoods.

Voles can be controlled by habitat modification and trapping.

Voles are plant feeders and usually live on the surface but may travel in mole tunnels. Moles live underground and feed on soil insects and earthworms.

Voles are often confused with moles, but they are very different in their feeding habits and are not related to them.

The color may vary between gray and brown. A vole is the same size as a house mouse, with small eyes and ears and a short tail.

Voles or meadow mice are found throughout Maryland.

They cause plant damage primarily in fall and winter. Voles damage boxwoods by girdling the base of the plant, feeding on roots, and tunneling through the root system.

Older boxwood plantings that are neglected and overgrown with weeds are prime candidates for vole damage.

Inspect plants for winter damage in the spring and prune out affected areas. This will help prevent damage from falling ice and snow.

For established boxwoods, tie a string or twine at the base of the plant and spiral the twine up and down the plant to hold it together and gently brush snow off plants as soon as possible.

To avoid damage from falling snow and ice do not plant boxwoods under roof eaves.

Maintain adequate soil moisture in the fall to prevent winter desiccation.

Physical barriers made from materials such as burlap or plastic, placed about 18 inches from the plants on the windward side, can also lessen winter wind damage by reducing wind velocity.

Winter damage can be reduced by locating plants in partially shaded areas protected from winter winds.

Dead twigs and branches in the spring may be the result of ice and snow damage from the winter.

Bark splitting can be caused by a rapid temperature drop caused by a mid-winter thaw.

Tissue death is caused by the removal of water in the leaves faster than the plant can replace it through root uptake from frozen water in the soil.

Leaves turn from bronze to reddish-brown as a result of exposure to cold, dry winter winds.

Winter injury may be confused with the early stages of the fungal diseases Phytophthora root rot or Volutella blight.

Starts on lower branches and moves upward in the canopy

Narrow black streaks on young green stems Larger branches dieback bark stripped from base of the plant Oystershell shaped scale covers found on bark of affected branches Larger branches die back bark stripped from base of the plantįine stippling (pattern of tiny white/yellow dots) of leaves early in season, followed by general grayish, dingy, unhealthy appearanceĭamage appears on new terminal leaves in spring white waxīlotch mines, underside of leaves appear blistered from late summer through the following spring Pink spores on leaves during moist conditions in springĮventual dieback from the top of the plant