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Stephen Gower wrote:
We've just bought a new (to us) house in Oxford, which has an
almost empty garden, except for a 6' Monkey Puzzle tree, which we
want to get rid of - it's not to our taste anyway, but we've got
two kids under 3, and we'd rather not have to fence off a bit of
the garden to keep them away from those spikey leaves.

Why on earth bother? Any normal child will learn from experience,
and such experiences are good for them. I have MUCH spikier plants,
and my children learnt about them as soon as they could crawl.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.