Large Shrub - Instructions For The Removal Of

thanks andrew ~ great blog ~ number 1 instruction ~ cool easily possible ~ but dry????

Gosh reading your blog and then Links I'm feeling shattered...where's the cuppa!

very well done!

Really enjoyed your blog.:O)

Great job you've done there....not to many bad words either...lol!
Have you decided what's going in next?

Andrew I love it, all your instructions are so good and certainly I relate to them, I`m best given lots of space when undertaking a task of that sort and I possess quite a number of dibbers in my shed that used to be forks and spades, as to the grunts and language, I`m a dab hand at both,LOL...

Scottish - I've not decided yet but possibly paeonia delavayi, a tree paeony with small, dark red flowers in May, and interesting foliage

ha ha ha ha ha lol I laughed my socks off think we can all relate to all of those instructions and efforts on digging up shrubs. what a good laugh thank you so much Andrewr. :O)

thats why i liked it so much oliveoil!!

:O) so funny!

;-)))

top job : )

Oh so funny and oh so true, was it a Viburnum? hard to tell from the photo. It looks as if you have taken out more than one!! though, have been doing the same here, but nothing like the size of your plants, thank goodness!! you have a lovely large space to fill, let us know what you decide....

I feel exhausted just reading your blog Andrew , but can relate to all you say. Love the photo of your garden with all the lovely trimmed hedges, and shall be interested to see what you plant in your newly claimed bed.

DD - no, it was a neillia. It's a suckering shrub, related to kerria. There were two or three distinct 'stools' and I'm sure there will be residual suckers which I will treat with systemic weedkiller to finish it off. There was also an unidentified fern (might have self sown) and a euonymus that never got going - it had practically no root on it

Great blog,Andrew..made me chuckle..:o) I think most of us will have been there,but you were very restrained with your language ! well done for keeping your cool :o))

I see, so one not to be grown again, can honestly say I have never heard of it, will google, euonymus grow like weeds here, which has to be a good thing, ideal for hiding unsightly objects.....

Ha ha. Reminded me of when I dug up 3 old Buddleias that were in the wrong places. Took me 3 weeks. I thought sawing off the tap root would not be effective, but it was. They did not reappear.
Strange how you forget these struggles on the garden.

DD - I had three rooted cuttings of a euonymus from my previous garden; two grew away well and made good bushes but this one never got going for some reason

Really funny, made me laugh out loud in recognition - specially the 'rock rootball in increasingly wild movements', the times I've done that. Usually accompanied by a prayer followed fairly swiftly but a bit of cursing cos its not coming out, even though its practically horizontal at the widest point of the 'rock'. But a 6 foot trench all round, I can only admire your dedication Andrew. Now all I've gotta do is work out quite which bit of the garden that is in the pic from my own photos taken in August...

Bamboo - it's heading from the sundial garden deeper into the back garden towards the fruit cage. The neillia was on the left of the path

Ah yes, I had sort of worked out where it must be - your garden has so many plants, it was difficult to remember quite where it was, lol. Looks a big space left there, that's for sure.

HILARIOUS!!