At least, it will be dead when I ring it !

The trouble is, our garden faces due west, and I mistakenly planted a
'slow growing' conifer halfway along the south-facing border with our
neighbour. (ie, on the left when you look out our back door.)

This now 10' tall conifer unfortunately casts a lot of shade across the
lawn in our 35' long x 25' wide garden. I was going to dig it out, until
I thought of the possibility of killing it & growing something up it.

Now I'd love a clem to put up it, but won't the buds all head for the
sun (not that I blame them !), and we won't derive any benefit ? Not
that we begrudge our neighbours, they're wonderful, it's just that we'd
like to see *some* flowers at least on the north-facing side of the
conifer.

Would I be better to consider to choose a different type of climber ? Up
to now we've gone completely with large-flowered hybrids, but have lost
a few this last winter - thought I was doing the right thing in the
occasional hard prune ((

Just got our first viticella to cover a short wall, so am lookin forward
to lots of smaller flowers this summer.

Regards to all, and thanks from you experts !

Roo.
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