Texas Gardening: Advice, please, on Recovery Plan, 1 by sybram

sybram wrote:
As some of you saw first hand, my Indian Hawthorne are in different levels of misery, due to my using a very strong weed killer in the beds. I know, boo on me. I agree, but I'm trying to help them if I can. Here's what I'm thinking: since the leaves (even on the brownest ones) haven't fallen off and the stems are not brittle, maybe if I trim all that brown off, they might pop new leaves. What do you think?