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Will broken tupelos regrow?

11 years ago

A pine tree fell through the middle of our shade garden yesterday. It broke large branches off of two tupelos that were providing the majority of the shade for part of the garden. With those branches missing, the plants below are getting 3-4 more hours of sun than they were getting before. I'm in Georgia, zone 7, and the sun is pretty brutal in the summer.

Here are a few pics of the broken trees. The first two are different angles of the same tree. The third picture is of the smaller tree that was completely topped. If we got up there and trimmed/cleaned up the damaged wood, is there any hope that new branches would grow there? If so, I could contrive some kind of temporary shade for the next couple years while we wait for the new growth. Or should I just move the plants to a shadier spot?




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