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What’s the chances of a tree recovering?

OU812 · 2018-09-28 22:05:38

Several years of ivy and some sort of winding weed (with a white flower) have pretty much killed off the upper half of a conifer. There’s only green growth around the bottom with almost no growth (just tangled branches) at the top quarter and brown sparse growth in between If I was to cut back the ivy. Do you think there’s…

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Several years of ivy and some sort of winding weed (with a white flower) have pretty much killed off the upper half of a conifer.

There’s only green growth around the bottom with almost no growth (just tangled branches) at the top quarter and brown sparse growth in between

If I was to cut back the ivy. Do you think there’s any chance of it recovering?

What if I cut the trunk at the top of the green and took away the top part altogether, would it recover and start growing again?

Or should I throw in the towel & remove it altogether?

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