On Tue, 17 Jul 2007 21:29:32 -0700, "Al Franz"
wrote:

Look at the following picture. If I trim the dead brown stuff off the
bottom will new green branches every come back, or are these dieing? The
bottom 2 feet has no green branches. Had some big bushes in front of these
and just removed them thus causing the dead bottoms.

http://netmation.com/egreen.jpg

Looks like typical week killer or freeze damage.

Only time will tell if it comes back. To prepare for the event it
doesn't, find yourself some very small replacement plants and get them
started.