In article , Jaques
d'Alltrades writes
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I've also got a berberis which isn't particularly pleasing in shape but
makes up for it with flowers, berries and leaf colour.

Did you grow it from seed? Berberis is notoriously difficult to strike
from a cutting, and I've had a layer pegged down for a year and it
hasn't made any root...

No - my husband retrieved it from a garden centre - it was lying under a
bench looking very sorry for itself, and they let him have it free.

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Kay
"Do not insult the crocodile until you have crossed the river"