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How to treat with honey fungus

Posted by Matt Brown on July 29, 2011 at 10:26pm in Pesticides

is there a chemical control out there for honey fungus? one of my customers has honey fungus in their garden and as its killed shrubs and tree's ive been digging the infected material out including all roots as far as possible. they have an enormous ornamental cherry that has died and it is showing the symptoms of honey fungus and there is absolutely no way that it can be dug out. the boarders are too full to thourougly dig the whole area over,

 

to date the affected items that i know of are

 

apple tree,

cherry tree

ornamental cherry

wysteria

5 ceanothus

rhododendron

tree peaony

 

all of which had peeling bark and white fungal growth under the bark they smelled very mushroomy and just before they died they had a magnificent show of flowers

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  • Tanya Batkin July 29, 2011 at 10:37pm

    Funny you should mention honey fungus, just discovered it in a garden I've started working in.

     

    There is no longer a chemical control since Armillatox was withdrawn from sale as a pesticide in 2003. 

     

    Very helpful info from John - Ace Garden Services who emailed me this link just this morning btw cheers John

    http://www.landscapejuicenetwork.com/profiles/blogs/honey-fungus

  • Matt Brown July 29, 2011 at 11:01pm

    thanks for that tanya ive just searced for armillatox and its still available but is now sold as a garden soap the second link below gives more info than the first one

    Amillatox is vailable from Amazon

  • Tanya Batkin July 29, 2011 at 11:11pm

    I saw the link but using an unlicensed product might just invalidate your insurance.

    Matt Brown said:

    thanks for that tanya ive just searced for armillatox and its still available but is now sold as a garden soap the second link below gives more info than the first one

     

     

  • Tanya Batkin July 30, 2011 at 9:10am

     

    Have just seen this thought you might be interested


    http://www.landscapejuice.com/2008/11/treating-honey.html

     

     


    Tanya Batkin said:

    I saw the link but using an unlicensed product might just invalidate your insurance. 

    Matt Brown said:

    thanks for that tanya ive just searced for armillatox and its still available but is now sold as a garden soap the second link below gives more info than the first one

     

    armillatox on google

     

    www.armillatox.com

  • claudia de yong July 30, 2011 at 9:30am
    The best thing really is to leave the tree as to be honest honey fungus tends to want to feed on dead and decaying material as it is parasitic and will only spread if you remove this.

    In fact many arborists specialists disagree with the RHS who suggest removing most infected plants from the garden.

    Obviously smaller infected shrubs etc can be removed but leave something for the honey fungus to feed on which is dead and rotting may help.

    I'm sure many will disagree though!
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