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    Spring clean your shrubs

    Feb 22, 2022 5 minutes

    ONCE spring is here we shall be inundated with jobs pressing remorselessly for our attention, so before the dormant season is at an end we should take a look at all the shrubs in our garden and decide what attention they need.

    Be really critical. So often we hold on to a shrub year after year for no better reason than it has always been with us. It would be much better to get rid of it altogether; it is wonderful for the plantsman, in any but the newest garden, to be presented with a gap. He will pounce on it with some thing or things that he has been longing to find room for.

    For example, take that lilac. Are not the blooms miserable compared with what you could have? The chances are

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