Bob a tree which you know grow to 100ft is an easy one. You find one of the
gardeners, take him to the tree 'because you have a question to ask' and
when there, get your pen and pad out and ask him "Is that tree a dwarf
variety because if so what is it? The normal ones grow to 100 ft and of
course would not be planted to so near a house, well I have room for a small
dwarf one but never a normal one" A fern? "What variety is that which will
grow in the sun?"

Mike

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"Bob Hobden" wrote in message ...

"david" wrote .

Christina Websell wrote:
"Bob Hobden" wrote
If you visit places with gardens as we do occasionally, and did this
week,
and you see some strange even plain wrong planting do you chat to the
gardeners about it?
By wrong I mean ferns in full sun and potentially huge trees, Robinia
pseudoacacia, planted almost next to the building.


That's a difficult one. If the gardeners were around and looked
friendly, I
might say "is there a reason why you did that..?" and see what they say.
Then go from there.
It's kind of like accusing someone of being a bad parent, very delicate
to
approach.

Just remember that plants don't read the books that we do.


Very true David but I cannot think of a fern that actually likes to be in
full sun or will live in those conditions, then there are the trees, large
trees that grow to 100ft and more planted a few metres from a house that
has had millions spent on it's restoration has to be madness in my book.
--
Regards. Bob Hobden.
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