"dg.dg" wrote in message
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THANKYOU for all your great advice - I'm afraid I havent had the time to
return here till now, but theres much food for thought.
Especially the stuff about Mums!
I now feel I have the confidence to take the first bold leap into the
world
of gardening and get a big pot with some nice colourful ivy to put up my
scrubby old wall.

A very sensible mid-point solution.

After all, you can always take a shotgun to the pot...

--
Brian
Henry Fielding: "All Nature wears one universal grin"