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Hello everyone!

New to forum. Would like advice. Is it safe to trim my hydrangea, for it is blocking sun

from my peony.
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We are, I foresee, about to have an innuendo masterclass.

Perhaps you could post photos, madam.
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seasonly you can.
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Well it probably depends on how often you have trimmed your hydrangeas in the past and also the actual size of your peony.
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I suggest moving your Peony
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All Hydranga's can benefit from a good hard prune once a year around October after flowering has finished. Take down to just above an offshoot and It will be fine.
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I don't think this post is actually about gardening ... or is it? Well this is Forum Garden, however ....

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jones jones;1437523 wrote: I don't think this post is actually about gardening ... or is it?


The benefit of the doubt always stands with the newbie. It's a rule.

Beyond that, consider: although your mind is capable of extracting double entendre from the opening post, you have no good reason to believe the poster was aware of the possibility. I, on the other hand, was more than able by post #2 to guarantee that some people on this board would be making hay from it.
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Týr;1437527 wrote: The benefit of the doubt always stands with the newbie. It's a rule.

Beyond that, consider: although your mind is capable of extracting double entendre from the opening post, you have no good reason to believe the poster was aware of the possibility. I, on the other hand, was more than able by post #2 to guarantee that some people on this board would be making hay from it.


Of course ... But then you have the "Wow" factor have you not? Clever man. I am soooo impressed .... not.
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jones jones;1437530 wrote: Of course ... But then you have the "Wow" factor have you not? Clever man. I am soooo impressed .... not.


So long as the newbie ends up believing you're polite, all's well. Surely you can at least fool the newbies, JJ.
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Týr;1437538 wrote: So long as the newbie ends up believing you're polite, all's well. Surely you can at least fool the newbies, JJ.


Moi? The Chosen One? I am the epitome of politeness Sir... to oldies and newbies alike but naturally always with the proviso that I am afforded the same courtesy in return and am not hunted down, singled out and given any special treatment for past mistakes I made and for which I have apologised. Many people are by nature unforgiving; I am not among them. Even condemned murderers are sometimes paroled.

Whilst most of my threads here on Forum Garden are retro/vintage in content, in my dealings with members I hold no grudges, harbour no grievances of past hurts and often injustices perpetrated against me by anyone who may still be a member today.

Perhaps many of those I hurt feel the same ... I have no way of knowing.

As we speak the member known as Jj bears little or no resemblance to the person who began posting here in 2008. I have only a handful of cyber friends on FG and communicate with them mostly by way of threads in the Forums. I simply wish to post threads which are usually & mostly without much text as well as the odd one which bears my own stamp of eccentric quirkiness.

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I apologise to redspider for using her thread in such an off-topic way.
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Call that a "Wow" factor by all means. I'll forbear to offer alternative descriptions.
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I reckon that happens a lot with small peonies.
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YZGI;1437553 wrote: I reckon that happens a lot with small peonies. Everyone trims their bush from time to time.
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I didn't know I was supposed to. :/
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SnoozeAgain;1437571 wrote: I didn't know I was supposed to. :/ Well, you wouldn't want your Peony to shrivel up.
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