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Rusty_Hinge[_2_] · 26-03-2009, 07:39 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening

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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.

Aye - we had yuccas with leaves like swords, and while I was ten when we
moved there, one sister was four, my bro' was a minute escapologist, and
my other sister was a gleam in her father's eye.

We also had a monkey puzzle tree now I come to think of it, though it
had had thirty years to get a lot bigger than the OP's.

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Rusty
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