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Old 08-07-2016, 09:11 AM
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Originally Posted by rubicon View Post
Dear UpNorth: for what it worth when we first moved here my better half reprimanded me because I wanted to use hedge clippers and not prune our shrubs as we did Up North. Well it took almost three years when she finally realized that Florida has a 12 month growing season which has prompted her laments of "clip those suckers bare" and we have them cut low and shaped them and they keeping growing and growing and growing and ..........
Listen to this man.

It is like a bad hair cut...It will be fine in a couple of weeks. Things grow fast here and a bad trim on bushes is forgotten in a month when they need it again. We do our own. A little at a time. Hot work in July, I can tell you.
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