Roadkill, is it a boxwood?

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I found this bush on my way home yesterday, it was in very bad shape, whoever dug it up didn't care to save the roots. I think it is a boxwood, although I don't know which variety.

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I decided to cut it hard and just leave some branches with green on it as a lifeline, I'm not sure if it will survive as it was drying out when I found it, on the positive side, there was some moist soil packed up below the trunk, it even had some earthworms crawling out of it. It has a nice base, but if you look at it from the side it has a pretty nasty reverse taper. I also pruned the roots trying to remove as much as the down-growing ones, the wood is tough on this one!

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The bark was scraped at the base from when they dug it up, but the piece was still attached to the tree, so I applied a bandage in the hopes that it will heal. Here it is in its new pot:


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It oughtta live.

I found a bone dry one once...still have it...it and another, with only millimeters of connecting live vein tissue, are my 2 best growing boxes.

Go figure.

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It oughtta live.

I found a bone dry one once...still have it...it and another, with only millimeters of connecting live vein tissue, are my 2 best growing boxes.

Go figure.

Sorce
So there's hope, thank you for that! My right hand's fingers are all blistered from the shears, 😆 this is some really dense wood.
 

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It oughtta live.

I found a bone dry one once...still have it...it and another, with only millimeters of connecting live vein tissue, are my 2 best growing boxes.

Go figure.

Sorce
Also @sorce , do you think it will back bud near the base?
 

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Also @sorce , do you think it will back bud near the base?

Like....what's left?

Or the base base?

Seems you have growth in decent spots now.

We'll see I guess....I reckon it depends on how much energy it had before spending it trying to relive.

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Turns out that some of the foliage that seemed to be healthy was blistered and damaged on the bottom side of the leaves, a quick google search seems to point to boxwood leaf miners, maybe that's the reason they got rid of it on the first place. I removed all the foliage that wasn't completely clean of any marks, poor thing was left with just a couple small branches and a few leaves. Survival chances are getting narrower for this one.

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