Mid-Atlantic Gardening: Yardening June 2015, 1 by Gitagal

Gitagal wrote:
OH, Muddy! so sorry to see that! I guess ROS are pretty shallow-rooted
to have this happen. The roots may also be damaged in this kind of a fall.
How old was your ROS?

I would opt for "the latter" too. You could replace it by a nice Crepe Myrtle.
There is one across the street from my house that is a big tree.
They cut it back several years ago--but it re-grew in no time at all--
just fuller and bigger.

look--just behind the light pole....

edited to say that the tree itself is already very old.
The cut-back was just the radiating stems above the main trunk,
Then each of the cut back stems made a new bunch of radiating new stems,,,etc,,,

This message was edited Jun 27, 2015 10:15 AM