On 04/06/2010 12:42, Janet Tweedy wrote:
What would you do with a bay tree that had been allowed to go its own
way and is now about 35 foot high and also very wide, stuck in the
middle of a shrubbery?

COuld you turn it into more of a tree than a huge bush,i.e. take off a
lot of the lower branches - thus giving the shrubs underneath a bit mot
chance to spread out.
It should recover......... it might even give it a new lease of life;-)

Jill