Sure looks like it. Sorry :-(

when were they planted????

does the sun reflect off the pavement .. onto the plant???

snowblower???

did it just appear now???

though i do not doubt gal .... i wonder if there arent other processes involved ...

e.g..... perhaps it wouldnt have gotten B if it wasnt cooking all summer long next to a driveway... with a fence behind.. meaning it stayed hot.. very late into the night ... rather than having the usual night time cool down period ...

it is very common ... that stressed plants.. attract all kinds of secondary problems .... and if you dont ID the stressor .... you may never solve the other issues ...

ken

It's been slowly dying for a few years. Blight has black spots, right? We found a dead spider inside, spider mites? Yes on the snow and sun. All of the others look good. It's been there for at least 4-5 years now. Thanks

Thank you jean001a, I don't have the brown spots on the leaves so I am in the clear. Now just need to figure out what it is so it doesn't happen to the others. Thanks again!

How bad were your last two winters? Did these get winter sun and winter winds? Do you use salt on your driveway?

The last 2 winters were rough for us. They get sun in the later morning and afternoon. All of the others around it are doing fine too. No salt on the driveway.

A lot of spills can happen on a driveway, antifreeze, gas, kids, etc.

It doesn't look like dog damage though.

Mike

We're quite a bit colder here and this may not necessarily equate, but quite a lot of box ended up looking like that here over the last few years, especially following the 2012/2013 winter. In any case, it seems to me a type of cold temp-induced damage, with individual stems being damaged and unable to recoup the loss, the surrounding areas not appearing to be affected. Again, not sure if this has anything to do with that damage, but the resemblance is there.

I don't deal in boxwood very often so I'm sure no expert, but I'd check too to see if some or all of these dead sprigs are not in fact broken off put still partly attached somewhere down the stem somewhere. That can happen and although the branch and its associated foliage may remain in place and seemingly hold together, all vascular connection may be lost, so it just dries out.

+oM