I left my hundred-year-old box bush alone for a fortnight in August just to enjoy the holidays: when I got back, ten days had been enough
A two-week August vacation turned catastrophic when an invasive pest stripped a hundred-year-old boxwood hedge to skeletal lace in just ten days. The box tree moth, a voracious caterpillar from East Asia, is systematically destroying boxwood across North America—and it peaks exactly when gardeners are most likely to be away.