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The dentist has juniper I only spotted that as you mentioned them. But they are over a mile away so it should be safe.
And indeed once a garden is setup, it's not too much work. Bar the eternal couch grass, weeds...but I'm not going for the "garden magazine manicured to sterility" look anyway.
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The manicured look comment made me smile, at 63 years old I've been pottering in gardens for a few decades. Including gardens that had chemical warfare unleashed upon it akin to the Americans using agent orange. !
I am happier now with just letting things grow where they spring up, stuff in the lawn that is green but certainly not grass, accepting that bugs will eat things, not having plants in rows and letting nature take care of things. Horticulturists in the family make it look nice among all the chaos :)
midlife
Yep some sort of fungus that lives on both juniper and Pear. Fungus can infect plants half a mile apart according to daughter who is studying horticulture (I think that's what she said)