Hebe Problem

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• Fairygirl Posts: 55,117

  March 2023

  Winter weather damage most likely. Very common, especially this year. Wet then freezing is what they dislike.
  They don't always respond well to cutting back either, but wait and see if you get any regrowth before doing that. In wetter areas they tend to die back permanently when they get that kind of damage. 
  Either that, or something peeing on it. Cats etc.

  It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
  
  
  
  I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...

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• punkdoc Posts: 15,039

  March 2023

  Looks like frost damage to me.

  How can you lie there and think of England
  When you don't even know who's in the team
  
  S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border

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• PassTheFox Posts: 38

  March 2023

  Mine looks like that too @MTB79 Suffered in the very cold spells 

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• Fairygirl Posts: 55,117

  March 2023

  Variegated ones are always more vulnerable too. 

  It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
  
  
  
  I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...

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• GardenerSuze Posts: 5,692

  March 2023

  I went for a walk this morning saw three looking very much the same. They can be cut back but not until spring, they take a long time to reshoot.  Sometimes it isn't worth the wait for their recovery.

  I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.

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• Plantminded Posts: 3,580

  March 2023 edited March 2023

  I no longer grow them because of their vulnerability to cold.  It's a shame because they are good border fillers and complement many other plants.

  Wirral. Sandy, free draining soil.
  
  
  

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• nutcutlet Posts: 27,445

  March 2023

  I was out for lunch, there was a row of dead ones all along the front of the pub. Even my 'Midsummer Beauty' looks a bit rough

  
  
  In the sticks near Peterborough

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