Aargh

Last year i decided to try to train a chaenomeles against a fence. It didn't really appreciate it and some branches died back. However, three main stems survived (along with lots of small new ones) and one was looking particularly pretty. Today as I was taking my secateurs back to the shed, I spotted it and thought I'd just quickly get rid of the dead stems and re-tie the others to tidy it up. I cut a thick stem right to the ground, stood back, and I'd only bloomin' well cut off the best stem of all .
It's all lopsided now. Act in haste, repent at leisure.

'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'
- Cicero
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Familiar scene here LG
I feel very silly.
In the meantime, a bit of it is looking lovely in a vase.
Oh it sounds like the sort of nonsnse that I get up to in my garden.
You have my sympathy.
Whew, I thought you had chopped off a digit...
We've all done it! Or stepped back onto the very thing we were being very careful not to step on
I did wonder about cuttings, Tetley. Not too confident with them so didn't, and it's too late now.
And Buttercupdays, I did that in the process too! I think they'll recover...
I will, next time... hoping there won't be a next time for this particular error!