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Griselina Hedging looks dead after the cold weather. Will it come back?
I have a feeling that what's left as the living crown and root mass might flog themselves to death trying to activate damaged tissue several feet up the creeper. On the other hand, hard pruning might force low shoots to emerge before the frost has finished. I'm inclined to compromise and cut away the bulk of the growth but not cut nearer than 4 ft away from the crown. Maybe you'd not do any cutting until April?
I have an escallonia hedge as a screen between my house and the next-door neighbours. It has been planted for 20 years and this is the first winter that there are no leaves on it, it is entirely "see-through" and it looks dead. There are two different varities of escallonia in the hedge, one variety only has branches left, and the few leaves that are on the other variety are a pink colour and are all falling off. Could the severe frost have killed the hedge or will it come on again?
I planted a number of ceanothus before the bad frosts. Most of the leaves of many of them have been burnt. However if I cut into the branches the inside is white and there seems to be sap there still.Is ceanothus hardy enough to withstand this weather?
Most of the leaves on my 7 yr old Ceonothus 'Trewithen' are dry and dead looking. There are still just a few of the nice green leaves left and no sign of any flower appearing. It is now Feb 20 and I don't think I will get the usual magnificant display of blue flowers this Easter. Is it time to get rid of it?
All the leaves of my ten foot Dodonea have totally shrivelled because of the frost, do you think i have lost the shrub or has it got a chance of surviving, it is eight years old.
I have a creeper (Cissus Striata) growing on the shed and it seems to have been badly damaged by the frost. I've only recently found out that I should have protected it from the frost! Will it recover?
I planted some Griselinia at the start of december just before the bad frost. now most of the trees have no leaves and some twigs are soft. are these now dead or should i wait another month to see if any new growth comes again?
Have read advice from everywhere and have made a clean cut across 3 broken branches. I seem to remember reading that by inverting a clean empty tin (like baked beans) over the wound would protect the cut. Additionally I put a handful of horticultural fleece into the base of the tins to act as an insulator. Does this make sense? Would it help? Any branch that is not broken I am not touching with the hope that nature will come to the rescue. Trees are 20 years old and I love them.
Leaves fallen off but some on inside near a wall are still undamaged. It's on a north west corner of a bed and protected from east side by the house. East Galway location. Will the shrub come back following frost damage? It's a lovely colour and 3 of them grow together. I would hate to have to dig out and it's 8 years old now.
Following the recent frost my 25 year old palm tree (3 trunks) looks very brown. I spotted some pink coloring at the base. What are the prospects?
I think this tree has been affected by the frost. Is it dead?
I have an outdoor yucca tree, 15ft tall with the leaves all dying on top and bottom of tree, also pink fungus growing on trunks of tree, ( three trunks)what can i doplease help as it was my mothers, Thanks . tree growing in poorly drained lawn , mostly moss but always grew there, no problem
My griselinia hedge has suffered in the recent bad frosts and the leaves are all brown. What should I do, should I cut it back?
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