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Vinca

(54,343 posts)
Thu Apr 17, 2025, 05:12 PM Apr 2025

Rhododendrons.

The winter hammered my bushes. Lots of leaves are brown and I looked closer at leaves today and some are brown and crispy. I'm going to start snipping the crispy ones, but I'm wondering if I should just snip off the brown part of the leaf or the whole leaf. They still have buds at the end of the branch, so it's only damaged leaves. I just can't decide if I should remove the whole leaf or not. Ideas?

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Rhododendrons. (Original Post) Vinca Apr 2025 OP
I would remove the whole leaf. I have very large Quakerfriend Apr 2025 #1
I guess what hit my bushes was just extremely cold weather, but I know what you mean about Vinca Apr 2025 #2

Quakerfriend

(5,882 posts)
1. I would remove the whole leaf. I have very large
Thu Apr 17, 2025, 05:34 PM
Apr 2025

sprawling beds of pachysandra & they’ve been hit by
Volutella blight 😢- So sad to see the environment hard hit by drought here in SE Pa.

Vinca

(54,343 posts)
2. I guess what hit my bushes was just extremely cold weather, but I know what you mean about
Thu Apr 17, 2025, 05:38 PM
Apr 2025

drought. We've been in a drought or close to it for the last couple of years - SW New Hampshire. It seems harder to grow everything. I haven't looked at the pachysandra yet, but I'll be out fighting the wild raspberries that love to come up in the midst of them very soon.

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