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A tight biosecurity regime which can lead to stupid blunders, see Australian biosecurity officials destroy 'irreplaceable' plant samples from 19th century France.

Unless you bruise the stems it is unlikely anything will work, they have an outside layer of silica, which makes them pretty impervious.

So, I am diligently dead heading my repeat flowering roses, but what should I do when the entire brace has finished?For example, I've attached a photo of my Euatacia Vye, whith one bloom and one bid left. What would I do with this once they have finished? Should this branch be cut back?

Don't know that. And is it male or female?

I had a problem area under a mature Acer a bit like that. I tried many of the usual shade loving plants but it always looked miserable after they had flowered in spring. I copied an idea from the Knoll Gardens website, block planting the area with Hakonechloa aureola, a neat, clump forming shade...

That really does look like it. Thank you very much. Nice that this hybrid between lutea and purpurea should occur in my garden.

I’d just tidy it up, removing anything that will come out with a hoe, spade or fork, leaving the stump. If the house and rest of the garden are in good order, the front bed won’t put people off, it is certainly not a vital selling point.

Thanks @BobTG! Hopefully they'll survive!

Make your hole as suggested above then hammer in a plastic rawl plug and use eyes with a screw fitting. Worked for me.

i used to year ago bring down a calf that size no problemwith a head lock finger & thumb in it's nose and pull it's head around to it middle