The record rainfall of 2012 caused an all-time high in reports of the fungal disease box blight, which causes bare patches and dieback in the widely used hedging plant Buxus sempervirens. The Royal ...

As box blight and box tree caterpillars continue to damage topiary and hedging nationwide, the RHS offers some alternative plants which won't succumb. If your box hedges and topiary have been ...

Last year’s wet weather had already caused record levels of the blight, according to the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS). And the problem is set to get worse, with the two forms of the disease, ...

I clipped my box hedges this week and was delighted to see them looking in such good health. Well reasonably so, as for the last three years I have been waging war on the dreaded box blight fungus.

As box blight and box tree caterpillars continue to damage topiary and hedging nationwide, the RHS offers some alternative plants which won't succumb. If your box hedges and topiary have been ...