By Avybags
United Kingdom 
I have had a privet hedge surrounding the house for a number of years and suddenly a portion of it has died off and it looks as though it is continuing further any suggestions
17 Aug, 2014
Answers
thankyou did you go on to replant privet in the same place
18 Aug, 2014
no as privet is susceptible to infection. I have blackthorn/hawthorn and another that I cant remember instead making a mixed hedge in that section. The RHS has a list of resistant plants that can be grown in the same spot.
18 Aug, 2014
This is typical of honey fungus attack.
Check the RHS website about this problem. I had a problem and I took out all the privet up to 1.5m either side of the dead ones.
17 Aug, 2014