I have 4 wedding ring hydrangeas on my font lawn but one of them looks dead. The other three are already showing leaves but this one doesnt have any, and the branches are dry and easy to break. Am I better off just pulling it out? Or should I wait? Heres a copy of the possible dead one versus the other three.

The hydrangea is growing from the base and looks fine, you just need to prune off the dead branches. The second picture is not a hydrangea

Edited to add this link to a Missouri Botanical Garden page for the hydrangea which may help you prepare it for next winter so that it doesn't die back so much:

http://www.missouribotanicalga...

Really??? That's good to know. That explains why it's growing different then the last three plants. Lol!!!
Thanks a bunch.

It looks like burning bush, Euonymus alatus.

Awe man I sure hope so! I found that bush at my work last summer and fell in love with it's color. I wanted to get one but it was so late in the year to plant something like that. Then we moved here. Lol wouldn't that be something?!

Britnay, your hydrangea blooms on both old and new wood, don't be in a hurry to prune the old wood out. The wood that is bright white, can be pruned out...thats dead. I usually don't touch my hydrangea macrophyllia until late May, early June as far as pruning. Not contradicting Sue, its just that people are to fast with the pruning shears sometimes.

ok I'll wait to get that done then. Thanks everyone.