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Aggressive new fungus in shrub
A couple of my well established shrubs have a nasty fungus this year – they are also dropping a lot of leaves. I don’t want to lose them. Can you identify it and offer treatment advice? Thank you sooo much!
Posted by Mary Podrabsky on June 5, 2020
Marianne's Response
So sorry I cannot ID the exact fungus from the image. I do know that the wet spring has caused many leaf blight fungus among us and the cure is simply dry weather. No overhead watering. You can cut out and collect and infected leaves and spread a fresh layer of mulch on top of the soil to seal in fungi spores. I am optimistic that your shrubs will all recover once the wet weather stops. Keep growing, Marianne Binetti
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