u/nanoH2O

I am thoroughly confused. At least three of the exact spots where I had dahlias last year have new growth coming up. I did not remove the tubers. Is this a dahlia?

I’m in zone 5B and we did not have a favorable winter.

I know what you’re thinking - why would you plant a tree this close to your house? Well if I knew now what I knew then I wouldn’t have, but here we are.

I would love to be able to keep this tree. It’s so beautiful. But am I in a spot where I need to just take the loss here and cut it down?

Or is there something that I can do to slim it up? I assume since it’s a spruce, I should not be cutting into the old growth? At the same time I don’t think I want to go to the painstaking approach of going by and cutting the new growth one by one every late spring. Thanks.