This year, in Central Ohio, there was a hefty high temperature period
and then a pretty severe freeze, which caught some large Autumn Olive
bushes in bloom.

As expected, the bloom ended for the year, but unexpectedly there
are no leaves, or maybe a couple dozen on a bush that normally has
thousands, on any of the bushes.

Do freezes at the wrong time kill off Autumn Olive completely?
It seems unlikely it could be, if the species is going to survive.

A couple of the big Autumn Olive bushes are ``native'' in the sense
of having gotten there as weeds ; and a couple are planted from
seedlings. They're all say 15' across and tall, so it's not as if
they're fragile or hadn't seen 20 below winters.

The (slightly related) Buffalo Berry is fine.

Russian Olive doesn't grow at all, except for a month of doing well
as seedlings before 100% dying off, in the clay soil. Autumn Olive
does well enough to establish itself as a nuisance weed, though.
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