Some time ago we had an overnight low of 26ºF. It left a lot of damage; flowers and leaves froze and died. Here are two views of a used-to-be beautiful bush just outside our little walled patio:
All those flowers and leaves are dead and dried up. You can see just a few green leaves at the very bottom.
Today a landscape crew came around and began cleaning up the damage. They were working across the road. Here's how the same kind of bush there looks now, with all the dead leaves and blooms blown off:
Today a landscape crew came around and began cleaning up the damage. They were working across the road. Here's how the same kind of bush there looks now, with all the dead leaves and blooms blown off:
And down at the very bottom, one lonely blossom still hanging on:
I don't know if all the branches will be trimmed off later. Wouldn't it take a long time for this bush to regain its full glory! Or maybe the crew will come around later and cut off all the limbs that look dead. Jim says they will regenerate. I guess time will tell.
Oh, by the way, in landscape parlance, these are not "bushes"--they are "shrubs."
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