It was 12 years ago that we discovered and fell in love with the sculptural properties of common box following the purchase of two dozen small plants.
H's chisel came out, and the task of planting began in earnest.
Box is very easy to look after, it only needs a good hair cut once a year during the month of June - tradition says Derby Day. For any overseas readers Derby Day is a horse race held on Epsom Downs in early June, and is Britain's richest horse race.
H, however, doesn't like to waste anything. He could not bear to throw all the lovely new green shoots away, and so began his marathon potting of the cuttings. We have given many plants away, and carried out various different schemes using the cuttings in the garden.
Eventually I decided that enough was enough. I finally persuaded him to call it a day, and be content with what we had achieved.
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