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Arboricides & Sympathisers

Grateful to Nick, Mach and Charles for their suggestions. I like the
thought of the sneaky underbark herbicide - has the right sadistic
touch. Alas, I can't follow Charles' suggestion and also torture the
brute by slow surgical reduction: keen-eyed neighbours watch over it
like hawks and would grass on me if so much as its least twig went
awol. What's more, Bob has now made me very nervous of the whole
undertaking and I shall be suspecting plain-clothes 'tecs lurking
behind every bush if and when I finally summon the courage to Do The
Deed.

Thanks finally to Moira for her sympathy. Incidentally, Moira, are
sycamores in NZ the sycamores of the UK or the sycamores of the US or
some Southern Hemisphere sycamore all of your own?!

While I'm posting: does anyone in the group grow chasmanthes? and if
so what would be their notion of their hardiness levels and cultural
requirements (in the ground and/or in pots)? I'm growing a couple of
spp from SIGNA seed, having, in my usual way, leapt before I looked -
so having leapt I'm now looking at a couple of pots of v.healthy
seedlings about which I suddenly realise I know absolutely zilch. 

Tim from Cumbria UK, the little county with a big climate: I travelled
back a couple of days ago  from a sun-bathing level of heat-wave by
the coast of southern Cumbria, through rain, hail, thunder, lightning,
a brief but complete white-out blizzard at the highest point going
over the fells, and down to our own far northwest coastal strip where
it was (as it still is) bright and sunny but fresh and cool - all of
that on a single day in a journey of 70 miles, max.
Tim Longville
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