Sissinghurst Yew Trees fight against Phytophthora

The fight is on to save Vita Sackville-West’s Yew hedge walk from Phytophthora fungus.

Planted in the 1930s, along with the rest of the famous garden at Sissinghurst Castle in Kent, the two 100-metre square clipped, parallel hedges had been known to be suffering from this common blight (which attacks the tree’s roots) for some time.