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Mulch them good in the next few weeks and just let them go through a normal cycle.
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Best advice ever. The leaves will be the first thing to go. When they do, just cut them off if they look ratty and it bothers you. Leave the pstems alone, new growth will emerge from the tops in the spring. The garden editor for our paper here recommends filling big plastic garbage bags with leaves and stacking them around the trunks in the fall. The heat generated from the rotting leaves helps keep things warm. I have no doubts it works, just haven't ever thought it necessary here in Mobile.
Russell