in article , bnd777 at
wrote on 11/4/03 9:05 pm:

Some ceonanthus seem to do this
Some like one spot and not another
They need to be hard pruned or they outgrow their strength
My daughter had a stunning one in what to me was a lousy position yet mine
of the same variety in good soil conditions gave up the ghost after putting
on way too much growth

If you hard pruned it, perhaps you killed it? I've always understood that
they *don't* like to be cut into too hard. OTOH, I've always had Ceanothus
that attempt to colonise the entire garden. Some of them seem to have
thuggery bred into them, so perhaps one just has to put up with that.
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Sacha
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