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1. smokeycretin9
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   With all the heavy wet snow, does anyone have any tricks to keep it from destroying my bamboo and my formerly nice, very old Boxwood hedge?

   Thanks.

   Posted 4 months ago #         

2. westseattledood
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   EZ. Get a broom and knock all the snow off or get your hand on limbs and shake it off. I cleared my bamboo and some shrubs off before I came in this evening. 7 foot high bamboo was laying flat on the ground. Cannot have that!
   If it looks like it is going to get colder in the next day or so and snow hasn't melted off some precarious limbs on trees, I'll take broom to whatever i can reach. If this wet stuff were to ice up and around branches, the potential for damage is there, as you probably have realized. ;)

   Posted 4 months ago #         

3. transplantella
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   Meh, I wouldn't worry too much. You might see some foliage damage but the plants should otherwise be fine.

   In Snowpocalypse a couple of years ago, we had several large mature yuccas (hate the things) which looked pretty well killed. The trunks rotted away and the swords croaked. (hooray!)We cut them down.

   I'll be dammed if the things didn't sprout litters of new little yuccas all around the base the following summer.

   I have worked as a groundskeeper here in west Seattle for the last four years. It is my experience that nothing here, with an established root system, can be killed. And I've tried. Oh yes I have tried.

   In my experience here, if you want to get rid of any established plant, you will have to dig out every last root and molecule and keep your fingers crossed that it doesn't come back.

   Posted 4 months ago #         

4. ghar72
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   Here's an article by Seattle Tilth about winter plant damage. Their recommendation it to not brush snow off majority of plants b/c of twig snap back damaging the plant.
   http://seattletilth.org/learn/resources-1/almanac/january/winter-plant-damage

   Posted 4 months ago #         

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