What's your worst gardening disaster? Might cheer up Clueless!

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  1. Sheal

    Sheal Total Gardener

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    Any chance of a picture of your tree please Simbad, Deodara holds special memories for me. :)
     
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      Jenny namaste Total Gardener

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      Well, I might as well confess that naively in 1989, I chose that tree to adorn the end of the grass by the path up to the front door. The door of a modern, detached house with a normal front garden - bigger at the back and backing onto woodland.
      It grew, and it grew and grew into a most beautiful tree but I forced myself to read up on its growth potential....:oopss: What a crazy choice !! We removed as much as we could and put SBK Brushwood killer into the stump.
      I still feel guilty when I see one,
      Jenny
       
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      • Pixie

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        Well, this year alone, the mice ate my first batch of broad beans, and i've just noticed the lettuces I started by seed are actually turnips! :psnp: Doh!
         
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        • simbad

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          Glad its not just me Jenny :), I haven't dared read how big it'll get yet :hate-shocked: ,obviously better to remove sooner rather than later then,we have quite a large garden at a 3rd of an acre but can see by its growth rate it'll be too large even for that, I think the garden centres should put a warning on them, with todays smaller gardens who has the room???, they look just to pretty with those lovely weeping branches.


          I'll take one for you today Sheal :), the spring growth looks lovely at the moment, making the decision even harder :sad:
           
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