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What’s with all the boxwoods dying this year?
Posted on 10/7/22 at 7:34 pm
Posted on 10/7/22 at 7:34 pm
I’m seeing mature boxwoods turn yellow all over the area. What’s with this? Too much rain last month?
Posted on 10/7/22 at 8:53 pm to BengalBlood81
Too much rain then not enough rain
Posted on 10/7/22 at 8:57 pm to BengalBlood81
Inflation and crawfish prices
Posted on 10/7/22 at 9:25 pm to BengalBlood81
Posted on 10/7/22 at 9:53 pm to BengalBlood81
I dunno but second year of about half of mine not making it is making me want to pull those high maintenance mfers out and put something else.
Posted on 10/7/22 at 10:20 pm to BengalBlood81
Boxwoods have to be the most unremarkable shrub.
Posted on 10/8/22 at 6:40 am to tigerbelly
Man I hate seeing that there’s very little you can do to treat dieback
Posted on 10/8/22 at 6:42 am to BengalBlood81
I’ve learned that boxwoods dying is kind of just what they do. It’s also damn near impossible to replace the ones that die with one that matches the rest of a hedge. I had them at my last house. Will never plant them again. Too many alternatives.
Also agree that they are totally unremarkable.
Also agree that they are totally unremarkable.
Posted on 10/8/22 at 7:03 am to bluemoons
What are good alternatives? My boxwoods not looking too good.
Posted on 10/8/22 at 7:19 am to Odinson
Lots of good options. LSU ag suggests dwarf yaupon holly or inkberry holly. They also suggest other hollys, Podocarpus, distylium, arborvitae, and yew depending on your application. I’m sure some others that know more about plants than me have some suggestions as well.
I just got super frustrated with the ones at my last house so I researched the issue a good bit when I was planning our new landscaping.
I just got super frustrated with the ones at my last house so I researched the issue a good bit when I was planning our new landscaping.
Posted on 10/9/22 at 6:57 pm to Odinson
Compacta holly is a great substitute except they get a little larger than boxwoods.
Posted on 10/9/22 at 7:49 pm to tigerbelly
How much of this is being spread by landscape companies who are going house to house trimming boxwoods?
If you aren’t trimming your own boxwoods you may want to start
If you aren’t trimming your own boxwoods you may want to start
Posted on 10/10/22 at 8:47 am to BengalBlood81
We just removed all of our boxwoods over the last two weekends.
We were seeing a lot of dieback or root rot and the amount of wasp they were holding has been crazy. My wife has been stung many times over the last two years while working on the bushes.
We pulled 28 wasp nest out of the bushes. The poor wife was wearing a damn bee suit almost the entire time we were working on them.
We were seeing a lot of dieback or root rot and the amount of wasp they were holding has been crazy. My wife has been stung many times over the last two years while working on the bushes.
We pulled 28 wasp nest out of the bushes. The poor wife was wearing a damn bee suit almost the entire time we were working on them.
Posted on 10/10/22 at 9:01 am to FrankDrebin
I think I have about 300 linear feet of boxwoods and half of them are dying at any given time.
anyone have experience with horsetail bamboo?
anyone have experience with horsetail bamboo?
Posted on 10/10/22 at 10:40 pm to BengalBlood81
One of my two entry way boxwoods are dying and it looks terrible
Trying to come up with a better species to highlight the front entryway
Trying to come up with a better species to highlight the front entryway
This post was edited on 10/10/22 at 10:41 pm
Posted on 10/11/22 at 11:22 am to Motorboat
quote:possibly the most invasive and hardest to control/remove plant you could choose
anyone have experience with horsetail bamboo?
Posted on 10/12/22 at 10:38 am to Motorboat
Horsetail is very invasive, hard to contain, and very hard to kill.
Posted on 10/12/22 at 10:43 am to Sev09
We planted Mexican Feather Grass instead of the little boxwood suggested in our landscape plan. They are uniform, beautiful, and show a lot of movement.
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