Overgrown trees

• 5 Jul, 2009
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The photo hows the top of the trees which are lovely but below they are taking over the border and impoverishing the soil so that other than perrenial cranesbills and astrantia and other very stong perrenials nothing grows. There is a skimmia, small rhodie and clematis in amongst this but they are all being smothered by the trees or are unable to succeed due to the impoverished soil...