| Don't give up on it yet! In the hot summer two years ago my ceanothus in a container dried out while we were away. We came home to find every single leaf blackened and scorched while the branches were brittle and broken without any sign of life. We wrote it off as entirely dead but never got around to removing it. About a month later we noticed a tiny tuft of green sprouting from the trunk and by the end of the year it was really trying to come back. It didn't flower much last year but this year it is restored to its original state and is flowering as I type. Good luck with yours! | 
