"Jo Ann" wrote in message
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Something happened to one of my boxwood shrubs. It looks as if
someone fell into it backside first, breaking many of the branches and
leaving a large, rounded section gone (picture a boxwood trimmed into
about a 20-inch square with a concave area the size of a large beach
ball on one side). I live right on the main street and the boxwood is
one of several lining the front walk, so some drunken idiot falling
into it is not out of the realm of possibility.

At any rate, will this fill in at all as time goes by? Or will this
particular shrub always have a big area missing? In other words, can
I prune this and hope to have it regain some of its nice, square
shape, or is my only choice to remove and replace it. Since it's one
of many, I sure hate to yank it out and replace it if I can avoid it,
since it will leave an obvious gap for a long time before a new one
fills in.

Thanks in advance for any advice,

Jo Ann

I have had my boxwoods fill in gaps and here is how I did it. When I did
my regular trimming I 'trimmed' within the hole so that the replacement
branches in there not only grew but branched. It took a few years, but it
looks like the hole was never there now.
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