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You need to replace the ones you're worried about and every other one that we can see in the pictures. They've all been tortured, and replanting with better shrubs/conifers is probably the best thing to do.

Thanks for the photos. They sure do help to receive responses.
Yes, it looks like you have a new opportunity there...

i agree ... way past there prime .. time to go ...

perhaps if you start a new post.. and add a pic of the whole front of the house ... we could give you some new ideas ...

it is very common.... that the side facing the house.. lacks light.. so they get real ugly on that side .. and .. the lack of light reduces much of the odds that they can regenerate with any vigor ...

bet a shiny penny.. they were planted when the house was built.. with no real concept of future potential ... they were just cute.. cheap little babes.. and who knew.. the owner would have to shear the beegeebees out of them.. because they were going to grow like the trees they are ...

yes.. they might recover.. in 3 to 5 to 7 years ... but this is the front of your castle.. do you really want to waste a lot of time.. wondering if they will ... it would be one thing if they were outback ... but you will have to look at them every day ... and that usually reduces the owners patience to ... i got to put them out of my misery ....

just be done with them ...

ken

Please remove them. They no longer spark joy.