Escallonia 'Iveyi'

Same escallonia after manual removal of black and yellow leaves, still a couple at the bottom but looks a lot more healthy for now

This escallonia was healthy last year but this spring has developed yellowing leaves and black spot. Any advice as to cause and cure, other than remove and destroy diseases leaves?

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Hello Tim welcome along 🙂 I'm afraid this is a relatively new fungal infection affecting Escallonia ... sadly it can mean the plant eventually fails, you can cut it hard back and treat with a fungicide.. Bayer fungus fighter should help ... not the best time to cut back now if you are expecting frosts but once the weather is more stable it's worth a try .. sorry it's not better news for your 1st pic @timprutton

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Hello all and thanks for the welcome. Thanks for the advice @icedance, there's such a lot of good healthy growth I'm going to try taking out offending leaves first before before hard cutback in a couple of weeks maybe if no good.

Good plan but would definitely wait until weather settles down .. I lost my escallonia hedge after a couple of hard winters back in the noughties ❄️ this is a great place to be so have fun Tim 🙂