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Portuguese laurels turning yellow

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  • bédébédé Posts: 3,095
    Please keep politics out of the garden.
     location: Surrey Hills, England, ex-woodland acidic sand.
    "Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
  • PlantmindedPlantminded Posts: 3,580
    bédé said:
    Robin Lane Fox (gardening correspondent, Financial Times):  "the best time to prune is when you are in the mood"

    Yes, I've read his book, "Thoughtful gardening".  However, it seems a bit thoughtless to me to prune when you are in the mood, especially if your mood takes you towards a clematis (or Portuguese laurel!).
    Wirral. Sandy, free draining soil.


  • GardenerSuzeGardenerSuze Posts: 5,692
    @Plantminded I have read his book a couple of times but now it seems a little out of date to me personally. He was referring to Privet.
    I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
  • PlantmindedPlantminded Posts: 3,580
    I agree with you @GardenerSuze, I tried reading it again recently but didn’t get very far!
    Wirral. Sandy, free draining soil.


  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Robin Lane Fox is an historian and classicist who writes about those subjects, and sometimes about other things in which he takes an interest including gardening. 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • PlantmindedPlantminded Posts: 3,580
    He writes a lot about gardening, his weekly column in the FT began in 1970 and is the longest running in print today.
    Wirral. Sandy, free draining soil.


  • WoodgreenWoodgreen Posts: 1,273
    edited October 2022
    I always smile at the mention of wild gardens, remembering the opening line of a chapter in his 'Variations on a Garden.'

    "Wild gardening sounds as attractive nowadays as a wild woman or a wild party."

    (This in the days when both would doubtless appeal to some.)
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