Not long after we moved into our house I decided that in the small border at the front I would plant box (Buxus sempervirens). The plan being that years from now when it has reached a good size I will train it as a cloud clipped hedge. For those of you that are wondering what this is….it involves a lot of clipping until your hedge resembles a cloud with all those wonderful undulations.
I’ve noticed recently that they aren’t looking too happy. On closer inspection the leaves are yellowing, turning a coppery color in places with white tips. Very often I see plants like this when they are grown in containers and I hadn’t expected it from plants in open ground. Basically they are short of nutrients and haven’t had enough water (I wrongly assumed all the rain we have had would have been enough!).
