This spring I have removed 5 shrubs from my overcrowed landscaping in the front yard under my picture window....and relocated them....
The remaining 4 shrubs are a mess from being overcroweded for so long....they are misshapened, and a couple are drooping outward...
Last night, I took some twine and tied up a couple of the drooping shrubs...they look better, but I don't know if that is the right thing to do with them...I also trimmed them up a bit...Do you think they will fill out again on their own???
Any tips on how to revive my poor messed up shrubs??......
Thanks!!!

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"Seeing life through Rose-colored glasses!"

lily, could you post some pics?

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this is one of the 4 bushes...I think they are an arborvite bush....

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"Seeing life through Rose-colored glasses!"

Wish I would have realized this about these bushes when I bought them....I'll try the miracle grow for Acid loving plants see if that helps..
but I might do what you did and yank them out..
we'll see!!.....thanks

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"Seeing life through Rose-colored glasses!"

Thanks Mike!....
I gave those shrubs some evergreen fertilizer last evening...they were spikes....hope it works..and I have done just that....pruned them lightly thats it!....I think they are starting to look better now!..
Yes, that is a Japanese Maple there....it's been there for the last 9 years....seems to be doing okay, but if I decide to move it, will it take to transplanting very well?? hmmm.....???

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"Seeing life through Rose-colored glasses!"

Dave, My main objection, is that it is right up against the house. This will keep the plant from growing a good root system since the ground around the house is generally more compacted then out in the middle of the lawn. Cut leafs are very prone to a few diseases that can be devastating to the plant, verticillium wilt and sapstreak disease. Chances are if you have a cut leaf, you will encounter one or both of these in the tree's life span. If the tree has a good root system it stands a much better chance of surviving an attack as these or both vascular diseases.

I am not even thinking of the foundation, although that is a good point as well. I never gave much stock in the lime leaching out of concrete effecting anything to any substantial point. I have seen way too much moss growing on concrete to subscribe to this theory.

Lilylu
As long as you can take it out without damaging the roots it should be okay. If I were to do it, I would plan on moving it in the fall after right after leaf drop, and mix some bone meal in the soil to encourage new root growth.

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Mike Maier
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The Plant Doc

Thats great info to know about the cutleaf. Is that the same as Acer Palmatum? (spelling?) As I have three of them that I planted last Spring. They really seem to do well in my area, but I guess I better do some research to brush up on them. In regards to the lime leaching out of the foundation (concrete), I did experience that with some Jap. Hollies (compactum) that I planted about twenty years ago. I had a heck of a time keeping them going as I would baby them along with the right fert.etc..They would look great for a while and then slowly start yellowing out and looking rather pathetic. I had the same exact plants growing away from the house with the same light, growing conditions and they were always fine. Eventually I believe that my adding pine bark mulch and Hollytone created the correct ph (acidic) and have not had any more troubles. There was a lot of concrete around the footers by those shrubs and it is the only thing that I could pinpoint as the culprit.

Mike!
I have some similar stories!

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Dave
Even my growlights are getting restless!