For some reason, the dead plant =video really appealed to me. Maybe it was that latent desire to bury something in the ground again, the first sign of spring??? Nice job, @ZackScott! What are you going to replace them with?
That first one looked like a tree you'd regret planting there anyway. The junipers, too, struck me as potentially growing larger than the space allowed.
Did you plant them in new division soil that has little topsoil and lots of clay? Or did you prepare the soil with compost and whatever else they needed. It seems strange they died if they had what they needed in terms of soil.
Usually things grow well (even survive dry spells) if they have a chance to make good root systems in well-prepared soil. \
Anyway, good luck with the new plantings! I was especially disappointed the video star tree died.
@ZackScott ~ You need to cultivate (snicker! snicker!) some friends who work for a garden supply center!
Seriously, I'd ask lots of question, maybe even have the garden supply center people come over and plant the replacements. Any good landscaping service will give you a guarantee of some sort, replacing the failujres at no cost to you. From the size of the plants I saw in the video, I bet you have $400 or $500 worth of plants to replace if you get ones of the same maturity, maybe even more. That's the other thing, for someone with a black thimb, you probably should buy the more mature specimens to start with so they have a better root system to start with.
Man, you killed THE tree! Didn't you release a spider nearby once, in an act of unimaginable humanity?!
@ZackScott ~ I have that same problem with the one I have now, a Logitech something or other- the things rectanglar with two dark blue neon(?) lights on either side of the built-in microphones. It replaces a Logitech that looked like a bugeyed monster. It locked up, too, but only on Internet Explorer. The new one started locking up on Google Chrome. I'm about ready to look for something besides Logitech webcams.