Yours is really lovely - I planted one in my London garden some years ago and find it is a martyr to aphids in this climate - and the number of snowballs it produces is not good enough to cut the mustard in a small garden where every plant has to earn its place. So it has had to go - last week someone local asked for mature shrubs to help rehabilitate a garden that had lost all its box plant to caterpillar damage - thy cam and dug the shrub up and it has gone to a new home. The joys of Freecycle and NextDoor ...
I hope your Boule de Neige is happier in its new home! My pair did not flower this year, as I think I pruned them too late. However, they put on a huge amount of growth during the summer and I am leaving them alone in the hope that I shall get an impressive show next spring!
Yours is really lovely - I planted one in my London garden some years ago and find it is a martyr to aphids in this climate - and the number of snowballs it produces is not good enough to cut the mustard in a small garden where every plant has to earn its place. So it has had to go - last week someone local asked for mature shrubs to help rehabilitate a garden that had lost all its box plant to caterpillar damage - thy cam and dug the shrub up and it has gone to a new home. The joys of Freecycle and NextDoor ...
ReplyDeleteI hope your Boule de Neige is happier in its new home! My pair did not flower this year, as I think I pruned them too late. However, they put on a huge amount of growth during the summer and I am leaving them alone in the hope that I shall get an impressive show next spring!
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