The Boxwood Blight Insight Group ( BBIG ) has announced a webinar series that teaches attender about growing and protect boxwood . Registration for all webinars is free . Knowing and maturate box - June 2 , 1:00 p.m. EasternGrown for centuries , box is not always well infer . Gardeners bonk of its report , but find it hard to describe good growing practices . Professionals search for accurate and detailed information to make appropriate horticultural decisions . This introductory intro murder the high points of box chronicle , language , landscape use , physiology , plague and diseases , caption and traditional knowledge , and in particular , gardening . The webinar is hosted by Lynn Batdorf , retired conservator of the National Boxwood Collection at the U.S. National Arboretum . Boxwood education and selection for blight underground - August 25 , 11:00 a.m. EasternBoxwood are democratic woody landscape painting shrubs grown for their divers form and broad - leaved evergreen plant leafage , with an estimate $ 141 million economic impact in the U.S. alone . box industrial plant grow in temperate zones worldwide are imperil by a blight disease triggered by the ascomycete fungi Calonectria pseudonaviculata and C. henricotiae . While the disease can be mitigated somewhat through cultural practices and antimycotic , the most sustainable long - term solution is the development of disease - tolerant Turkish boxwood cultivars . This academic term delve into interspecific breeding and pick of Turkish boxwood towards resistor to Calonectria pseudonaviculata . This webinar is host by Katrijn Van Laere , senior research worker at Flanders Research Institute for Agriculture , Fisheries and Food - Plant Sciences Unit ( ILVO).Invasion , impact and direction of box tree moth in Europe - December 2 , 11:00 a.m. EasternThe loge tree moth , Cydalima perspectalis , is a plague of boxwood originating from East Asia . Since 2007 , it has obtrude upon Europe and the Caucasus , do severe damage to planted and wild Buxus coinage , in particular the European box genus Buxus sempervirens . In 2018 , it was found in Toronto . In Europe , box is apace evaporate from private gardens , green and forest , causing serious concern for the ecologic survival of the tree mintage . In this introduction , the speaker system will partake in the European perspective on the insect - its encroachment , designation , biology and direction . This webinar is hosted by Marc Kenis , Head Risk Analysis and Invasion Ecology at the Centre for Agricultural Bioscience International ( CABI).Progress in Boxwood Blight Management in the United Kingdom and New Zealand : 1990s to 2021 - March 10 , 2022 , 3:00 p.m. EasternIn this seminar , Matthew will trace the progress of box blight and its management in the UK since it was first found in the mid-1990s . other advice to gardeners was to take away all Buxus from gardens where the disease had been recorded . Since then , considerable onward motion has been made in observe gardens spare from box blight , but also to deflect the eradication of the emcee from garden where it does appear . While it is still a difficult disease , there are increasing options for its direction . The situation in the UK will be compare with that in New Zealand , where box blight has also been present since the 1990s . This webinar is hosted by Matthew Cromey , Senior Plant Pathologist at the Royal Horticultural Society ( UK).For more information : Boxwood Blight Insight Groupwww.boxwoodhealth.org