Jinny Blom, landscape designer & author has sent some disturbing images from her recent visit to the Aveyron area of the South of France. The pictures show bushes that last year were healthy and green, but have now been defoliated.
EBTS UK was well represented at this year’s annual trade show for garden designers and landscape architects, Landscape 2018 held in Battersea Park in London.
The second flight of the Box Moth has started – given they start laying eggs just days after they start flying, you need to be on the look out for small caterpillars which will hatch a few days after being laid.
Last year Karen in South West London sent us pictures of the damage done to here box hedging around her vegetable patch and also to some large box balls – find out how it’s doing this year.
The eggs laid by the box tree moths that have been flying for the last month are now hatching into hungry caterpillars.
Buxus National Collection, UK News
Work continues on improving the health of the buxus plants in the National Collection, including propagating the rarer varieties.
EBTS UK is a member of the RHS Plant Society and this year, for the first time in a while, we had a stand at their event at RHS Wisley.
With reports of caterpillars in Frinton on Sea, Cambridge, close to the Chiltern’s & closing in on to the National Buxus Collection in Rake in the South Down, it’s not surprising there has been a moth sighting in Chichester.
Are you an EBTS member living within 50 miles of NP25 4AD? How about joining Helena Gerrish for a Topiary Tea and a relaxed tour round the immaculate garden at High Glanau Manor?
The Annual General Meeting of EBTS UK was held this year in the wonderfully historic surroundings of Hever Castle.