Euonymus shrubbery

I put in some new euonymus shrubs this past fall. They have been looking great. Only in the past few days the leaves have started to fall off some of them. The tips of the leaves have fallen off and the edges look brown. Could this be from the extreme cold weather we are having here in the Atlanta area? I am very new to this but I will take a photo of the leaves and try to include it in my next post. I hope I can figure out how to do it. In the mean time if anyone has some thoughts on this issue, I'd appreciate some hearing them.

How cold is "extreme cold"? Euonymus are pretty hardy, but if it got cold enough then cold can do damage that fits your description. If it is cold damage, the best thing to do is leave the plants alone until the spring and chances are they will pull through just fine and put out new growth then.

It's probably just from the change from the grower to your yard - transplant shock. Mine keep their leaves in sub-zero weather if the winter has been "slow to start" as they say here. If we have a suddenly cold snap in fall, then they drop their leaves and wait until spring to regrow them. I think that I have seen some growth this winter when the seeds ripened and opened, a few new leaves began growing at that time ( the forsithia was blooming like mad too, it was warm and wet).

Thanks for the feedback. It got down to around 15 degrees, which is pretty cold for Atlanta. I'm wondering if it's there is something I am doing wrong like not watering enough or too much or if something is wrong with the soil, but if you say your leaves fall off too at really cold temps then my issue is probably cold weather too. It's encouraging to read that your leaves grow back in the spring.

I agree with the cold weather being the problem. Down here in this part of the country, our plants aren't used to 15-degree weather any more than we are! I had a couple of plants that reacted badly to our low of 22 last week too. I too think your plants will recover. Do you have mulch on them to help keep the roots a little warmer? That helps.

Yeah, your plants had not been conditioned to that kind of cold, so that is why it happened. Just make sure that you do not over water them, especially in winter.
I hope all your landscape plants live through the winter. I lost an enormous bed of canna lillies to a sudden drop in temp. when I lived in your zone.

The mulch suggestion is very helpful. I will put some pine straw around the base.

Love that pine straw! I used to buy wood chips but not anymore--I can get all the pine straw I need for free at the deer camp :-} And it stays neat longer than the wood chips.