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Spotted Lantern Fly
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Fagus sylvatica hedge grown at Waverly and installed by a customer in 2023
This is another example of
implementing a costly management
program to maintain the health and
viability of the nursery.

Managing Beech Leaf Disease
Finally, we are now on the cusp of
another issue impacting the industry.
BLD is probably a disease we can
learn to live with. At Waverly, we have
grown beech since 1990 and have
recently started growing finished
hedges of Fagus sylvatica. Again, we
are seeking a program to ‘manage’
BLD. The following link describes
research into a management
program that is getting reliable
Fagus sylvatica purpurea and Fagus sylvatica hedge grown at Waverly
results: https://www.researchgate.
net/publication/378966648_ using Broadform as described in
Exploring_Novel_Management_ the research discussed in the above
Methods_for_Beech_Leaf_Disease_ link, although I cannot endorse this
an_Emerging_Threat_to_Forests_and_ product until more positive evidence
Landscapes comes out of research.
Although we have not seen BLD Before we and the industry ‘walk
at Waverly, we are proactively away’ from Fagus, we owe it
utilizing the fungicide/nematicide to ourselves to see if a viable Jerry Faulring
spray program described in the management program exists. There Waverly Farm
article above that has shown great are many thousands of these very 1931 Greenfield Road
promise. In August 2024 we began valuable and beautiful beech being Adamstown, MD 21710
a trial of four applications spaced grown in our landscapes. It makes 310-874-8300
three weeks apart to determine if sense to see if we can save them and
we can avoid the disease. We are continue to plant them. A

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