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sallyg said:I think most of us agree, we'll never give up on gardening in general, it's just certain plants that we'll give up, after finding they are not worth the effort. But it's fun to have tried them. I tried a plum tree, this year I have fruit, but I'm going to try real hard to give it up. ...

A next-door neighbor has some kind of (ornamental?) plum tree. The fruit just drops on the ground, where squirrels love to bury the stones. I have plum saplings growing up through my very old, treasured Rhododendrons now. I can't really get down and go in after them, but have poisoned some and paid someone to go after the others.

This year, the competition made my best Rhodie barely bloom at all.

YMMV.

(This was a good year.)