Shrub placement outside building?

[IndiaHawker]

So in my game, I'm trying to plant shrubs outside an alternate character's house, but one of the shrubs has withered. I've laid it out like this:

oxxxxxo
oxxxxxo
oxxxxxo
ooooooo
oowoooo
oososoo

o= empty plot
x= house
w= withered shrub
s= shrub

sorry, i dont know if its possible to tell from that or not.. But if it is, why has that shrub withered? I'm not sure, is it to do with the square in front of the house that you cant place a path tile on? The shrub is diagonally next to that, is that why it wont grow?

sorry, this is probably a really confusing question! Thanks in advance for any help

 

[sn0wxyuki]

Lol dead spot of your town???

 

[Le Ham]

I think in front of a player's house, you can't have a bush or tree growing within 2 units of it. That's why your closer shrub has died, it's within the boundary.

 

[Kate86]

It's because it's touching diagonally the entrance square of your house. Like this:

OXXXXXO
OXXXXXO
OXXXXXO
OOOXOOO
OODOOOO

O = empty X = house D = dead shrub

You can't place anything in that entrance square (flowers, patterns), and trees/bushes can't touch it but if you put a bush one space to the left it should grow.