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queenbeez Brooklyn Park, MN(Zone 4a) Mar 02, 2010

winter is just to long here in minnesota.looking out my windows daily waiting for the snow to vanish.pretty worried though cause it looks like the rabbits did some major damage :( they nibbled all the branchs on alot of my shrubs,even the shrub roses.i now some shrubs should be cut back in spring,but my rhoedendron is not on that list-probaly wont bloom this year! i cant believe how much they ate,my cyprese and hemlock they have no lower branches,will they sprout out new ones?i worked so hard last year on my gardens and spent alot of money-cant be spending alot this year.i hope my plants survive this massive hack job,i am praying to the plant god :)

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beagelgarden Defiance, OH Mar 27, 2010

Ouch. I have had that problem too, but not as bad. My blueberry bushes lost a year of branches at least and my climbing rose bushes might need a few years to recover. I think the evergreen have a tough time recovering if they are pruned down to old wood.

My fenced in bushes faired well. So did my older shrubs.

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ecrane3 Dublin, CA(Zone 9a) Mar 27, 2010

If nobody here knows for sure about the cypress & hemlock you might post in the trees & shrubs forum, someone there will know for sure if they would come back. Some plants like that will come back from severe "pruning", but with others if you've cut (or somebody's nibbled) down too far into the old growth they won't resprout. I know arborvitae won't come back if you cut into old wood but I'm not sure about cypress & hemlock. Things like your roses & rhodies should come back though, although as you mentioned anything that blooms in the spring on old wood may not bloom.

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