Sir, - There is a flower bed in my back garden in which I had a very cheerful display of daffodils and bluebells in the spring, and a very poor display of annuals in the summer. I decided that roses had more to offer, and some years ago I asked a landscape gardener to attend to that.
He said that the bulbs need not he dug up, that the roses would come on after them if planted as things were. They do, but unfortunately the bulbs are multiplying like rabbits and the roses are so smothered that they do not have foliage until late in the season, and blooms later again.
This year, I have decided that I shall have to dig up most of the bulbs and consign them to the ashbin. Many are being thrown out even now, but when I see them looking so healthy and so promising, I feel like an abortionist. Would anybody pay me £25,000 to stop? Yours, etc.,
Bishopscourt Hill,
Wilton, Cork.