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OPPORTUNITY knocks

It’s always sad when you lose a tree, but when her Acer negundo died as a result of shot hole borer, Melanie Stewart saw it as an opportunity to upgrade the entrance garden.

“The boxelder shaded the whole front garden and nothing would grow there so it had been brick paved. Once all the dead wood had been

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