My brother-in-law lives next to my parents and pops around to maintain the garden when they're not there. He thinks anything that isn't grass is a weed and has strimmed, mown down or poisoned so many plants now. He even got a mate in to mow the field as it was getting unkempt. Apart from losing all the wildflowers they also mowed down 3 sweet chestnut saplings and a scots pine that I'd paid for. They thanked him for trying and explained about the wildflowers but he said it was ok as there were no flowers in the field just a bunch of weeds. Some people just aren't cut out to be gardeners
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
If my wife did that to my plants id cut her fingers off lol. I'm lucky as my wife likes the garden and how i make it look but she doesn't have a say in anything past the doorstep. I am the king of the garden and she is the queen of the house, harmony.
I was just about to moan about my OH cutting back daffodil foliage before it dies back. Then I saw @Big Blue Sky ‘s post and feel like you shouldn’t really sweat the small stuff!
I was just about to moan about my OH cutting back daffodil foliage before it dies back. Then I saw @Big Blue Sky ‘s post and feel like you shouldn’t really sweat the small stuff!
That reminded me that they mowed over my daffodils too. Really a small stuff compared to a thirty years old plant. 😢
I was just about to moan about my OH cutting back daffodil foliage before it dies back. Then I saw @Big Blue Sky ‘s post and feel like you shouldn’t really sweat the small stuff!
That reminded me that they mowed over my daffodils too. Really a small stuff compared to a thirty years old plant. 😢
Feel for you @b@"Big Blue Sky". The best I can say is treat it as an opportunity and a chance to grow some new plant
Thanks for all your contributions and I really feel for you Big Blue Sky, that is terrible and your husband thought he was getting a good offer from those rogues, who hadn't got the faintest idea how to care for a garden.
I am pleased to say I have cooled down a bit now, after reading your helpful suggestions and the fact that I am not the evil guilty one as my husband makes me out to be - you have helped to justify my feelings of anger. However in the great scheme of things they are only plants and hopefully will grow back if he will let them - but the thought and effort I put into that border, and nurturing them is what hurts the most. The problem is I can't moan too much as he does dig and lift heavy things that I am no longer able to manage. He works in the garden with me and we do discuss what needs doing in the garden - he just overstepped the mark this morning whilst I was drying the dishes. I asked him to walk the length of the fence to check for rabbit holes and he decided it would be easier to cut what was growing near the fence without asking me first. However I am pleased to say no holes or burrowing were found in the fence. The picture shows the fence on the left with the start of the plants growing alongside the fence - this picture was taken a couple of months ago.
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Feel for you, when you’ve put thought, time & energy into creating sthing beautiful, it’s like your work of art has been destroyed. So upsetting.