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Gardening

shanti

(21,750 posts)

9. Nope

Reply to Doodley (Reply #5)

Sun Sep 15, 2019, 07:35 PM

Sep 2019

They're at least 6 feet tall. I don't have the strength to do it myself. You basically have to put a bungee cord around it and take a hedge trimmer to it from the bottom to trim it. Then, you have to dig and dig to get the vigorous roots out. I asked the gardener last year to take a chunk off and transplant it, hoping it would stunt its growth, which he did, but it didn't take. AND it grew back bigger. So it must go.