Euphorbia Mellifera frost damage

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    Dahlia123 Apprentice Gardener

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    Is this Euphorbia likely to recover from frost damage?

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    pete Growing a bit of this and a bit of that....

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    Looks a bit like a "wait and see" to me, some half alive bits at the base, so it might come back from the ground but The top growth looks mostly dead.
     
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      Thank you. How and when would you advise pruning?
       
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      pete Growing a bit of this and a bit of that....

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      Personally apart from a trim up if you think it looks untidy I'd not cut back drastically until you can see new growth and then you can cut back to that.
       
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        Mine also got pretty badly hammered in December.
        Cut all the dead bits back to firm/white stem tissue.
        There are a few main stems that remain.
        Hopefully it will re-sprout when the weather gets a bit warmer.

        I did save some seeds from last year.
        So worst case, I will have to start again, but am hoping not.
         
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          I'd wait a bit. We have a few of them and they all looked completely dead. I had cut this one back, as usual, in November and we thought it was really dead but it is now starting to show some life. The others haven't started yet.

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          This is a shot of it that I have quickly pulled up. It was 6ft high and 10ft diameter.
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