Grisalinia dying

Clazbeag

Hello Boards,

I was hoping somebody might be able to help me.

We have grisalinia in our front garden. No issues with it for decades until this year. Entire sections are becoming brittle and just dying off- to the point that there are large gaps in it now.

They are appearing at different spots throughout the hedge (not just near one section of roots).

I've tried googling but can't see anything that could impact it this year.

Would anybody have any experience or advice on this?

Thanks

A2LUE42

Is there a possibility that t may have been splashed with a herbicide? I have an old grisalinia hedge and got a little on it in a few places last year because of wind and was surprised how much of it died.

Nigzcurran

Any chance kids are hiding in it and breaking or damaging branches in them? That’s what happened to ours

gozunda

Two most likely culprits are Honey fungus and Sclerotinia fungus. 

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/garden-work-1.224098

Waterlogging of the soil can also cause dieback.

Clazbeag

A2LUE42 wrote: »

Is there a possibility that t may have been splashed with a herbicide? I have an old grisalinia hedge and got a little on it in a few places last year because of wind and was surprised how much of it died.

Thanks for the response- no nothing that we know of and no new products used in the garden that we're aware of. It's not public either so would be confident that nobody else could have splashed anything either.

Clazbeag

Nigzcurran wrote: »

Any chance kids are hiding in it and breaking or damaging branches in them? That’s what happened to ours

Thanks!

No kids in the house or really calling- just a usually well behaved dog!

RachelsCousin

Are entire plants dying?

It could be a fungus attack, most likely honey fungus, or root rot called Phythopthora

https://www.rhs.org.uk/advice/garden-health/disease/Honey-fungus

https://www.rhs.org.uk/advice/profile?pid=542

Clazbeag

gozunda wrote: »

Two most likely culprits are Honey fungus and Sclerotinia fungus. 

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/garden-work-1.224098

Waterlogging of the soil can also cause dieback.

Gozunda cheers for sending that on.

I definitely had the wrong spelling when I was searching so would have missed this. Will investigate these.

Thanks again!

Clazbeag

RachelsCousin wrote: »

Are entire plants dying?

It could be a fungus attack, most likely honey fungus, or root rot called Phythopthora

https://www.rhs.org.uk/advice/garden-health/disease/Honey-fungus

https://www.rhs.org.uk/advice/profile?pid=542

Thanks RachelsCousin.

Yes I think they are entire plants that are dying off. For a while I thought it was just branches but when I was trying to cut them out they appeared to all go to the same root.

I will look at those links- all the help is really appreciated!