"Janet Baraclough" wrote in message
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In one of my ex-gardens my successor employed a jobbing gardener who
couldn't identify large specimens of hamamelis, viburnum bodnantense
(both leafless) and garrya elliptica (out of flower), so he "pruned"
them all to 6" stumps :-(

A jobbing gardener did exactly that in my present garden to a Rosa
cantabridgiensis and R. rubrifolia. I managed to stop him just before he
tackled the rest of my species and shrub roses.

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Franz