When a customer takes against a shrub its days are numbered...
So it was with a rhododendron that we uprooted last week. I never enjoy doing this. However the upside was that said pink monstrosity (customer's opinion) had self-propagated. Rhodies are shallow-rooted. Where its low branches touched the ground they had started to grow. End result - plenty of green garden waste, but also nine or ten free rhododendron cuttings, gladly given away.
We took them. We have another customer who would love a rhododendron. We mixed local topsoil (surplus from another job - patch turfing) with ericaceous compost, located as many large tubs as we could find on the plot and watered copiously.
I am sorry we could not save the lilacs and the euonymus, but there is a limit.
