I don't have a ton of hands-on experience growing woodies yet and inherited this with a garden plot. It has two live and thriving branches but the rest is brown and dry. Should i hard-prune all the deadwood and see if the new shoots take over? Or pull it up?
by conditional_identity
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Looks like it was neglected but it’s growing back from the base, so I would say yes, prune hard, get rid of all the obvious dead wood and see how it recovers. Rosemary likes well draining, loamy soil, but my mum had a monster of a rosemary tree living happily in thick clay for decades so I believe they’re pretty damn hardy really.
Prune what’s dead and it will probably grow back just fine. Consider also trimming the growing tips of the branches that are alive so the plant grows bushier.
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