Pam Moore wrote:
They look normal and healthy enough. Are they new shoots since the
move? If so it may be OK but it will never make new growth on the
dead twigs so may never look very good.

Hi, Pam. Well, those new tufts in the picture have appeared in the last
month or so. Prior to that there were similar tufts that appeared about
9 months ago, i.e. 2 months after I found the shrub discarded. I got
excited when those tufts appeared on what was basically a dead-looking
shrub. But then nothing more happened, despite TLC, until the last
month or so. I'm wondering if we're only going to have this relatively
poor spurt of buds once a year. If growth continues like this then I
suppose in five years' time it might look respectable. But it could be
a scraggy-looking thing till then!

Eddy.