re: Why do my boxwoods keep dying??

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I’ve started converting all hedges to dwarf yaupon Holly. I’ve gotten comments that they’ll grow huge, but I find a couple trims a year is plenty to keep them in shape and in 3+ years I haven’t lost one.

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I’ve never lost one of those. Just don’t shear in the late fall or they may freeze and be partially bare for a year or two. I have a hedge row of big Yaupon that have root rot problems. It’s a bummer because of how slowly it attacks the plants. Lots of wasted time trying to fix the unfixable.