@nevillesdaughter wrote:
I planted a 6 inch high bay tree about 15 years ago and it's now about 8 metres high - friends cut off quite big branches (and try to tell me they are helping with the pruning), to take home to hang up and dry.
As an aside, my first overseas trip was to Greece by myself when I was 18, and somebody pointed out a beautiful avenue of giant, ancient trees and explained to me that they were bay trees. I remained polite and tried to sound impressed but in my head I was thinking "Big whoop". Oh callow youth.....
Marina.
oh....
maybe not then!
When i first got married, i bought a green shrubby looking pot plant called slow growing shrub - good for bonsai, for an indoor plant. Eventually planted it in the garden, and about 10 years later uit was a massive tree! Turns out it was a fig tree FGS!
The roots went everywhere, into pipes, drains was a mess!
Some people can go their whole lives and never really live for a single minute.
