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Brachyglottis Sunshine - Will it come back

tomsparkesVeBG9cggtomsparkesVeBG9cgg Posts: 1
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Hi, I have two large swathes of Brachyglottis that has taken a real hit early this winter with the snow. Most leaves are dead, if you cut into some of the stems lower down they are still green. Any advice on how to take it forward? Does it just need all the dead wood cutting off and wait for new growth or is it done for?

Many thanks 

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  • GardenerSuzeGardenerSuze Posts: 5,692
    You have checked further down and found green stems a good start. You will need to wait and see. It has been wet, which plants with silver leaves hate and of course cold too. I wouldn't cut it back now just wait until spring. The top growth will offer some protection. 
    I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
  • LoxleyLoxley Posts: 5,698
    They do tend to sprout from old wood so the prognosis is good! 
    "What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbour". 
  • bédébédé Posts: 3,095
    edited January 2023
    Some Brachyglottis varieties have rather ugly (my taste ) colour flowers.  I like the leaves, I like the habit of growth, but I always pruned off the flowers.  It might be the time to review what you really want in that postion.    

    They are easy to root as cuttings.
     location: Surrey Hills, England, ex-woodland acidic sand.
    "Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
  • JennyJJennyJ Posts: 10,576
    edited January 2023
    There was one here when we bought the house. I didn't like the flowers so it got the chop every year so that it made new foliage. One year it turned up its toes and didn't regrow. No great loss for me.
    Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
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