Marie Staunton

If you can't cut your own hedge, this is just for me in terms of, you know, having a garden that we can control ourselves.

If you can't

cut your own head, you're going to have to get somebody in to do it.

And then it becomes a problem because, you know, we went back to the cold caller thing.

You know, you have to know who's coming into your garden to do the work.

But I would suggest you get something as easy to look after and maintain as a privet hedge, a grizzly linear hedge, a Portuguese laurel, something like that, that you can control easy enough yourself.

That's the trick.

It's banned in parts of France.

You see, as climate changes...

Things that never really seeded well before, or they had the sterile seed, are now producing viable seed just because of the climate change, the hotter summers, that sort of thing.

And then they become a nuisance and they seed everywhere.

So sometimes, a bit like the case of the Elbassa is bound in some parts of France, not all parts, but in some parts where it does really well in very sunny, you know, much more sunnier climates than ours.

And it seeds everywhere.

And they look nice, you know, little ferny kind of things on the ground.

But then they become big trees.

And then it costs money to get them taken out.

So that's the problem.

But if you look at New Zealand, in parts of New Zealand, in Auckland in particular, you have agapanthus that we love.

You know, agapanthus africanus and all the lovely agapanthus.

And they're not allowed to grow them.