</font><font color="blue" class="small">( I surveyed the winter damage today and it looks like I lost all of the Holly bushes that I planted last year... about 10 of them )</font>
Junkman, you may be right; may have lost them. But about 20 years ago, we had a record cold spell, icre storm, etc. that lasted awhile and I, and my neighbors, thought we'd lost ours. All the leaves fell off and everything looked like it was dead. The neighbor across the street used a chain and his pickup truck to pull all his and planted new that Spring. I just pruned all mine back to about 12" high and they came back better than ever.