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Euphorbia - have I killed it!

heath64heath64 Posts: 33
in Problem solving
hi. I had a huge plant (Euphorbia I assume) at the bottom of my garden. It’s been really healthy and I haven’t had to do anything with it for the last year and a half since we moved in and it’s just been quite happy. But this is now what’s happened! I assume it’s dead? Any ideas why? (I attach before and after photos)

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  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445
    Some of them aren't very hardy, I have several like that. You can cut it back to base and you might get new growth from the base


    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • bertrand-mabelbertrand-mabel Posts: 2,697
    Is it a euphorbia?
  • Butterfly66Butterfly66 Posts: 970
    Looks like Euphorbia mellifera? Ours looked like that a few winters ago. Cut it down to the base and it re-shooted, took a while to really get going again but is fine now
     If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”—Marcus Tullius Cicero
    East facing, top of a hill clay-loam, cultivated for centuries (7 years by me). Birmingham
  • parrotfeather*parrotfeather* Posts: 188
    I lost several Euphorbias in pots this last winter and they will not shoot from the base but anything still in the ground may do so in time.
  • heath64heath64 Posts: 33
    I think it is a Euphorbia Mellifera or at least that's what Google photos identifies it as.  That's encouraging to know it may grow back so I'll chop it down to the base - so annoying though as it was a huge bush. Thanks for all your advice.
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