Kitchen Garden Forum

Persuaded my gardening hating husband into the garden this afternoon to help me prune/ saw back two old thick trunked pyracantha bushes with the electric hedge cutter as it's too heavy for me to handle. After 20 minutes pruning, sawing and puffing he suddenly disappeared indoors for ten minutes and reappeared saying "A guy is coming tomorrow to give us a quote for digging the damned things out. That will save us ever having to prune them again!" That's his kind of gardening

Sound a perfect solution to me - best you point out the other stuff you want sorted while he's visiting! Think about all that space just waiting for something else to be planted!

Westi

Dear Primrose, now that's where you could do with a neighbour like me. A cup of tea and a slice of cake would have had me well on the way to eliminating the shrub.....

OH - I will have the slice of cake ready for next time. The fence will look rather bare without these two large shrubs, but I've never known anything like pyracantha for growing as fast as Jack's beanstalk, and I've reached the stage where climbing up ladders to prune them no longer feels safe. The birds will miss the berries but as our next door neighbour also has a monster pyracantha which regularly intrudes over our garden fence they will be able to nosh hers!