Cracking ideas
Apr 21, 2021
3 minutes
LEAVE it alone, ma’am’ was Lord Melbourne’s sage advice to Queen Victoria whenever she considered intervening in affairs of state. It is a stance frequently favoured by gardeners, but my fellow columnist Charles Quest-Ritson pointed out () the dangers of such an approach when it comes to trees and shrubs in bed and border. All too often they are allowed to remain in situ until well past their sell-by date—their habit ungainly, their vigour diminished
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