Out of the Box
This year the invasion came! It came not just to us, but all of southern England. A green invasion of hungry, wriggly caterpillars🐛 Starting small, how they grew!
Rapidly they doubled and trebled in size, fed exclusively on leaves of Buxus (Box), their favourite shrubs, where they’d taken up residence. Our garden has lots of large Box... and Box Caterpillars invaded every one! Leaves stripped mercilessly, leaving one little shrub as dead as a Dodo.
Then someone told us about Xen Tari. It was a miracle. All box plants regrowing. And even the Dodo has made a Lazarine recovery.
Miraculous!
- Category: True Stories Told As Fiction
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Richard Hunt almost 2 years ago
Same here, Colette has a whole hedge of the stuff that we planted for her. It would be a pig to get up … we have already replaced our minuscule buxus with rosemary. She seems happy to stand there day and night …although blackbirds like the very disturbed soil.
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Neville Hunt almost 2 years ago
Xen Tari from Topbuxus, a Dutch company, is incredible; it works, and quickly gets rid of the hungry caterpillars - they stop eating within 2-hours of spraying and are no more within two days . Even our box bush that anyone would regard as completely dead is now quickly recovering. It really is remarkable and very easily dispensed. I’ll email you with the exact details.
