Jackie French: How I use the whipper-snipper to cut pruning time in half

Jackie French
Updated September 20 2023 - 4:29pm, first published September 17 2023 - 5:00am

According to my Mum, the difference between a good haircut and a bad one was "two weeks". Mum was entirely wrong about this, as was her belief that you didn't need to read the "method" in a recipe. Just bung in all the ingredients and cook.

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Jackie French

Jackie French

Canberra Times columnist

Jackie French is an Australian author, historian, ecologist and honourary wombat (part time), 2014-2015 Australian Children' Laureate and 2015 Senior Australian of the Year. She also writes a gardening column for The Canberra Times.

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