I'd suspect they won't recover, but best to wait and see.

Resin

another story that involved planting a monoculture... and ma nature takes them all in one fell swoop ...

if they fail.. do not plant one kind of anything ...

ken

hi ... you respond here .. to continue the conversation with the group ... not in personal replies to me ... and i mention this, to further the discourse.. not because i didnt appreciate it ...

i did not mean to imply that the monoculture was the CAUSE of the problem... winter was the cause ...

the EFFECT of the monoculture .. is that one bad winter.. your borderline trees are ALL affected ...

had the original planting been a selection of different plants with different zonal tolerances ... ... then perhaps.. they would not have all been totaled ...

i do not grow these.. in my z5 garden ... and thank God.. because we had a z4 winter ... i suspect.. they are z6 plants... and you had a z5 winter ... and that is why they were decimated ...

live and learn.. do not replace with the same thing ... nor all of one thing ...

good luck

ken

Sorry for sending the email, we did not lose all of the trees maybe 10 and I would like to replace them with the same kind because of how fast they grow. They were full grown in a few short years and that's what I wanted. We get some pretty awful neighbors in the apt bldg next to us and I just want to block them out. I have never had a problem of any kind with these trees since they were planted. Should I wait a little longer before we cut them down or are they more than likely dead? Then I risk the chance of not being able to purchase them anywhere, and I would rather not look at these neighbors for a year. Some of these trees still have some green growth on them but I really think they are too far gone the winter was just too rough.

I have tried and tried and tried to upload pictures to this topic but it clearly will not work, so I quit. I click choose file, the file name with JPG on the end comes up aside of (choose file) but nothing happens. Any suggestions? Not sure how it came up but those are two trees that didn't get as much damage as the others, I will try to get them uploaded. Wow, I got it to work.

I finally got them to work. I think I took 5 photos, some very badly damaged some not so bad.

no need to apologize for the email ..

i cant do these in MI ... so we need some higher zone peeps to chime in ...

hence.. you keep coming back to GW ...

i would not bother with trying to save anything.. that looks like the second pic ...

the first pic.. a couple snips.. and problem solved.. well.. this problem..

we need a bboy answer ...

ken

this is one of the better looking ones

i think this is the last one

now i am done

"do not plant one kind of anything"

So says the man who has five miles of Green Giants

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you might mention the other 650 conifers on the 5 acres ...

in my world.. if all 50 GG die tomorrow.. i still have... 650 others ..

have you ever said anything nice to anybody???

ken

ps: thanks for infringing on the proprietary rights of my photos ...

in the first set.. i saw the plant near to the house service... but didnt mention it..

but you last set of pix... they are growing into the power lines [or so it looks fromt eh camera angle] .. you know.. sooner or later.. the power company is going to come thru.. and do a job on them ...

and in my world.. its the fault of the planter.. not the power company ...

you have a lot of things to think about with your collection of plant ...

ken

I say quite nice things to people, just not to someone who posts 6500+ and gives out erroneous information all the time. Maybe the OP has many other trees like you and will do as you do with the other 650. You are virtually always the first to reply with some inane and bizarre and often downright nasty comment. I do wonder how you are always the first, surely you don't get auto updates, that would be really creepy. You need to practice what you preach.
Your pic is linked directly from GW, and you do know that once you post pics they are de facto property of GW and "You also permit any visitor or member to access, display, view, store and reproduce such content solely for personal, noncommercial use. You need to read the TOS.

The 2nd pic is a little deceiving, the tree most certainly is dead but there is one aside of it with a good deal of green on it. I can't touch the dead one because there is a bird's nest in it so I will let be for now. So I would say we might have lost maybe 5 total which I will replace and they art not as close to the power lines as they seem. Those may be trimmed to a lower height as the apt bldg is not next to them so a little trimming will be done. I did read an article the other day on these trees and it was somewhat promising,

"The damage has occurred, what should I do? Now that we know some of the causes of winter damage, where do we start? The first reaction by homeowners is that plants are dead and need to be removed. Although this may appear to be the case, many of your trees and shrubs are actually alive and will bounce back. The first step is to be patientâ¦Many plants that have winter burn need to have their first flush of growth (new leaves emerge). This occurs anywhere from mid-may to mid-June, depending on the variety. At this point you will be able to tell what needs to be pruned. There will also be some plants that do not come back at all. Homeowners that use gardeners should convey this to them so that the plants in question are left alone and not severely pruned or pulled out".

Most Leylands I planted in VA took a similar, severe beating from the Jan 1985 cold wave (-20F). All but one recovered, tho.

Eventually those look like they'll get into those power lines.....