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17-11-2002, 11:09 PM

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Audrey writes
I have just moved into a property that has a small garden. All the plants
appear to be dead, but how do I know if there or not ?

Green insides to stems = alive
Brown = dead

If you want to trim things back, do so cautiously, and don't cut back by
more than half way anything which is green inside. But there's no
problem (other than aesthetic) in just leaving everything.

Thinking of some of the stuff that gets into gardens with a bit of
neglect and the way some annuals end up. A tap on the stems to see if
they're hollow could yield results of things that can at least be
trimmed to ground level to tidy things up, cautiously obviously.

Some photos on a website would be great though. A test for all those
here to play spot the plant when greeted by twiggy forms and will likely
yield a fair number of hits on wilting leaves too.

Warwick