Boxwood blight has arrived in Marin County. The disease is caused by a fungal pathogen called Cylindrocladium buxicola. The spores of this disease have traveled from the United Kingdom, to the East ...

A serious fungal disease that attacks the popular landscape shrub, boxwood, has been found in Michigan for the first time, according to the state Department of Agriculture and Rural Development.

* What it is: Virginia-based Saunders Genetics has been leading the effort to develop blight-resistant boxwood varieties since the deadly Cylindrocladium fungal blight showed up in 2011. So far its ...

Boxwoods (Buxus spp.) are one of the most common shrubs in landscapes throughout Greater Columbus. This deer-resistant, broad-leaved evergreen shrub is typically used in foundation plantings, as a ...

Picture this: Your once-vibrant boxwood hedge suddenly starts to wilt. The leaves develop brown spots, and then their lush, green foliage turns a sickly brown. That, my friends, is the handiwork of ...

Hello Mid-Ohio Valley farmers and gardeners! Fall weather has finally arrived as daily temperatures are forecasted to peak in the mid-70s. Many backyard gardeners are harvesting tomatoes squash and ...

For centuries, boxwood has been a go-to plant for creating structure in gardens, whether it’s used in hedges, edging or clipped into geometric shapes. Popular at historic sites — think Williamsburg ...

When a deadly new blight disease showed up in Connecticut and North Carolina in 2011, gardeners feared it might spell the end of our landscape-favorite boxwood. Although the disease has since spread ...

Many of you noticed that your boxwoods had browning of the branches and dieback in the spring. I have written a couple of columns about this and the potential problems. Many people are just now ...

With the Christmas weekend over, you may be getting ready to toss out all the holiday greenery to make a clean start for the new year. But not all of those plants should be put in a pile by the road.

Winter is here, but we’re still getting plenty of questions to Ask an Expert, an online question-and-answer tool from Oregon State University’s Extension Service. OSU Extension faculty and Master ...

Boxwood blight, a highly contagious fungal infection, has struck a number of locations in Colonial Williamsburg Historic Area, causing the removal of plants, some of which were more than 100 years old ...