Beginner Gardening: Pruning/care assistance, please...for an evergreen, 1 by leisure500

leisure500 wrote:
The evergreen in your picture is Dwarf Alberta Spruce.

Unfortunately, these are not very reliable and often develop the brown-out
spots that yours do. Other than cut away the affected areas, I don't know
what else you can do. Unfortunately, the damage will probably happen again,
so you really want to start thinking about some other shrub for that area.

Options might be boxwood (which you shape similarly) or upright yew.

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