Those Forsythias might have the final say - mine have revived from suckers
many times!

On 1/12/06 6:51 PM, in article , "madgardener"
wrote:

The verdict is out, the evidence is laid out before me like some old man
carnage. I have to give the old coot credit.........for someone with
prostrate cancer, and lord knows what else ails him (and according to
some...he was a real mean old ******* most of his life, stealing cows and
moving property lines and such trivial but important stuff in rural
Tennessee area's) he sure did make mince meat of those 148 year old
Forsythia's.

(snip)