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  1. Daisies

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    So I finally had to give in and let some gardeners loose in my patch. It needed it. Looks like it had a bad hair day all over!

    Well, they set to with a will and it looks so much better but ....

    They pruned back my lovely ceanothus to a 3' stump and rooted out all my verbena - sob sob!

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    I guess the ceanothus will regenerate - it hasn't ever had a good stooling and it won't do it too much harm - just sad to see the stump instead of that lovely mantle in front of my kitchen window! And the verbena - I have a pot full of seeds garnered from earlier flowerings so I'll just have to grow some more.

    Why is it they never do what you think you've told them to do!!
     
  2. Fran

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    Oh dear - guess gardeners are better working with non gardeners who wouldn't recognise a ceanothus from an elder :D . I hope your ceanothus grows back strongly.

    Still if in the main they did a good job - was it worth it?
     
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    I think you will find you have hundreds of seedlings of the Verbena around the garden. Its a pretty prolific seeder.
     
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    Looks like gardeners may be like builders, plumbers and car repairers (and women, according to my Dad. I blush for him sometimes!) - when you find a good 'un - HOLD ON TO 'EM! :D :D
     
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    Not sure if I can comment on this one....... being a gardener and a woman, who people seem to want to hold on to... :rolleyes: :D
     
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    Best of luck with the Ceanothus, the one at my mother's which had to be cut back that fiercely never did regrow. Here, they just die of cold!
     
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    Oh, cheers, Pali! Cheer me up, why don't you!
     
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    Spread the misery, I always say!
    If it is a deciduous one, then you can cut back to within three inches of the old wood and it will reshoot, bit like a Buddleja say. Evergreen ones (which is what my mother's was) are not so good at regeneration like that.
     
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