Is my arborvitae dying or just stressed?
Read it by pattern. Uniform bronzing on the windward and south-facing sides after a cold open winter is winter burn and usually flushes back out by June; a sharp browse line with cleanly stripped twigs to about four feet up is deer, not disease; and one plant going fully brown while its neighbors stay green is almost always root rot in a wet pocket or a girdled stem, and that one is not recovering. Interior yellowing and shed in fall is just normal seasonal drop.
Why arborvitae ends up on a quote here
It is the default privacy hedge in every central Indiana subdivision, and the two things that end them are deer and ice. Because they go in as tight rows on a property line, one failed plant is a permanent visible hole that never fills — so arborvitae work is usually a replacement-and-reset job rather than a single removal.
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