Today after much contemplation went out into the garden and cut down a nice healthy, well rounded, ever green, shrub. The Viburnum (can't give a Latin name - just common round here) was a good and probably at the time cheap 'filler' for the new widened main border some 5 plus years ago. Just a little 2 foot shrub. However as a huge round dark green mass in the middle of the mixed border it was no longer working. I do feel mean about it and was considering taking cuttings which I am sure would take just fine but should a inflict such a boring plant on anyone else... I think not. The flowers were boring, never seemed to be smothered in insects, the scent, non existent. Of course next week I will learn that viburnum wood is highly prized by someone and if only I had let it go on for another few years.... my fortune made!! Perhaps not! However much as I have cut it down, there still remain lots of suckers and whether I poison the roots or dig them out. A time issue me thinks. However I can now see the lovely black Sambucus (black lace) that was hiding behind the Viburnum. 
