Evelyn Usher writes

I was not in this group then only joined this week.

I know you're new and getting used to things, so a couple of pieces of
advice to help you get more answers than you might otherwise get.

If you look at other people's posts, you will see that people leave in
just enough of the post they're replying to to allow other people to
make sense of their posts. For example, I've just had to go back to my
newsreader's list of titles of posts and re-open Chris's post to get the
context of your post. If you'd included Chris's comment "There was a
thread on pruning rhodos a couple of weeks ago, entitled 'Too late to
prune a rhododendron', started on 31/05/09" I'd have known immediately
what you were talking about!

If you go on to Google, and select 'more' from the menu at the top, you
will see a drop down menu with the item 'groups'. Click on this, enter
uk.rec.gardening in the box, and you now have access to Google's
archive. You can then search within the group on any topic you want.
It's well worth doing, because if you ask a question that has only
recently been dealt with, or one that has come up dozens of times, some
of the people who gave helpful replies the first time around may not
have the time or inclination to reply on the same topic so soon
afterwards - so searching first may give you more information than you'd
get by asking on the group.


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Kay