Due to freeze this winter. It's only 2, but they're in the middle of a bunch of others. Rather than digging them up, do they make a green spray just for better look?

Picard said:

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You're kidding, right?

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Actually no. If I dug them up, it would take a good five years for the new shrubs to catch up with the others. They are off the street enough that passerbys wont be able to tell. Trying to go the easy route, but don't want it to look stupid. Just asking.

What kind we talking about and is there some substitute you could get that wouldn't be any better than some off green paint not really matching the actual shrub?

Tony Franklins Other Shoe said:

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What kind we talking about and is there some substitute you could get that wouldn't be any better than some off green paint not really matching the actual shrub?

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Boxwoods. Figured it was a dumb question, but I didn't know what, if anything, was out there

Don't dig them. Use a rope and pull them w your truck

OP, you would have better luck replacing them with cardboard cutouts…

Pull them out. Pull others out to match (they're boxwoods, for Christ's sake!). Replace with big pots and annual flowers.

They make green paint for lawns. Maybe that's d work.

call local landscaper. Ask him to hold on to mature same shrub when he is redoing someone's landscaping. Instant fill

Lake08 said:

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Picard said:

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You're kidding, right?

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Actually no. If I dug them up, it would take a good five years for the new shrubs to catch up with the others. They are off the street enough that passerbys wont be able to tell. Trying to go the easy route, but don't want it to look stupid. Just asking.

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Too late

You may have boxwood blight. If the new ones die too you are better off getting rid of all of the boxwoods as it will continue to spread and kill them.


https://pddc.wisc.edu/2022/01/24/boxwood-blight/

The OP is British and in the news!

https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/british-woman-viral-bringing-dying-plants-back-life-hysterical-5-hack-genius

People still plant boxwoods? Is it the green mustache of boxwoods cuz that's even more of a reason to get rid of them

I'd pull'em out.

I think I've seen feaux boxwoods at Lowe's. You might check that out.

Loropetelum. 1st cause it's maroon!
Easy,fast growing to build a hedge up to 6-8 foot or less. Cold resistant, pest resistant and
disease proof.

All my landscape buddies would pull them and replace with something ideal for that spot as per pro advice, either local or free radio, e.g. Garden Success, KAMU-FM, Neil Sperry in Dallas, etc.

I do have friends that planted vines that would use the severly trimed back "stumps" to climb - but wouldn't suggest these became aesthetic topiary, rather they formed rounded greenery ala shrubs .... best if evergreens selected

One guy simply chainsawed them close to grade and was able to find enough earth to plant between them; what I don't recall.