My dear departed husband bought a plant with no label from a garden centre attached to a stately home. He asked the attendant what it was, they asked someone else who said it was a flowering bush, they didn’t know the name,but it didn’t grow very big and took a couple of years to flower. Took it home and planted it in the very small front garden of our terraced house near the front door. Next spring when it sprouts leaves I said “it’s an oak tree!” He said no way they wouldn’t sell an oak tree. It was an oak tree. He kept saying that he was going to get rid of it. Then he got ill and everything went to pot. The tree kept growing as they do. I am not a gardener and just kept cutting it back. After DH’s death and when I got myself together I got some chaps off Trusted Traders to come and sort out the garden including getting rid of the tree. They cut it off just above the soil and cut a cross in the top telling me that it would not grow back. Well it has. It keeps sending shoots out horizontally and I keep cutting them off. What can I do to kill it properly? Sorry for the long post.
Last letters become first - March 26
Thought this might amuse some of you!
Updating bathroom with a walk-in shower unit.
