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Hi, thanks for the replies.

I read that if you bury a tree above it's natural base that the water
would eventually damage the trunk and it would die.

The steps idea is a possiblity, but if i made it private it would look
a bit like a pit with step down to it because it isn't a huge chunk of
land, but a fair chunk of my garden on the whole.




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MrsBrown

You can cut Holly back as hard as you like, it makes a great hedging
plant.
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Holders of national collections of Clematis viticella cultivars and
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