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Just a suggestion since you are a newbie at gardening. Stand back and take as clear a photo of each section as you can. Once you post them, and find out what they are, note the names of each so you will have it for reference in the future.
Also, you can get a lot of info here and locally find the number for the Board of Cooperative Extension in your area. They should be able to add a lot of info for you, too.
Thanks, I am in Georgia, I have a ton of plants all over my property, I will post more photos. There was a freeze in December to single digits. I have a large one of these bushes I will post that one too tomorrow.
I am also in GA and I have lost several of these bushes. Boxwoods are junk shrubs anyway. Live and learn, trial and error. My soil is on the acid side, and I’ve had good results with nandina, hollies, gardenia, viburnum, distylium and loropetatum.
Thanks, I am in Georgia, I have a ton of plants all over my property, I will post more photos. There was a freeze in December to single digits. I have a large one of these bushes I will post that one too tomorrow.
That freeze in December damaged most of the boxwoods here in TN too. Temps dropped over 50 degrees to sub-zero here in a matter of hours right before Christmas. Normally a plant gradually acclimates to the cold weather as winter sets in, but the sudden and severe early freeze caused the water still in the stems and branches to freeze solid, killing much of the above-ground plant.
As others have said, cut the plant wayyyy back. There may still be enough life left in the root ball to grow a new plant above ground. It is better, whenever possible, to continue with an established root ball than replanting with a vulnerable "baby" one. But it takes time to see if the old root ball does, indeed, have sufficient life left.
We are still watching our boxwoods (and azaleas and hollies) closely, and we aren't sure yet if time will bring them back. We have about 40 shrubs that are are on "life support" right now. Fingers crossed for yours and mine!
Here’s my other one. Ignore the weeds and holly in the middle of it
Yeah, those plants are past messing with.
Tip: cut off all the dead branches before you try to dig it out. It's a pain to do but more of a pain digging it out with them on it.
You know, they might have just died. For no reason apparent or just because. I had a climbing rose do that last year, bloomed like a madman and then just died.
Agreed. It would be good to know what caused them to die off like that so you don't do it again, but they're too far gone now. Just read the instructions on whatever you replace them with and hope for better luck.
If you don't want to dig them out, you can cut them off at the ground. Small chance a few might survive and come back... no harm if they don't.
Thank you for your comments - I have an even larger one, I will post a picture of that - any idea why those in particular are dead while everything else is alive?
Severe cold this past winter killed a LOT of landscape plantings in zone 7
I am also in GA and I have lost several of these bushes. Boxwoods are junk shrubs anyway. Live and learn, trial and error. My soil is on the acid side, and I’ve had good results with nandina, hollies, gardenia, viburnum, distylium and loropetatum.
Add abelia to that list. I hate nandina but loropetalum is a good bush to have in the landscape.
Add abelia to that list. I hate nandina but loropetalum is a good bush to have in the landscape.
Love Abelia, but they did not do well in my yard. There are dwarf nandina, such as Lemon and Lime that thrive in a shady area of my yard.
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