I was on another gardening site where somebody was complaining bitterly that the people who had bought their house had ripped out some of their shrubs. They need to accept that once they sold the property is it no longer their house or their shrubs. If the plants meant so much to them they should have arranged to take them with them.
I accept it is disappointing when new owners don't want the same look, but that's life.
Indeed @KT53. I feel disappointed when I see my old garden round the corner, because the folk who bought it removed the hornbeam hedge and replaced it with leylandii. They removed the handrails from the deck in the back garden. Very odd - as it was about four feet from the ground. Their garden though. I try not to go past it if I can. There's another new set of people in it now, and at least they haven't chopped the Amelanchier at the front gate in half, like the first lot did...
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I found myself feeling ridiculously grumpy when the people who moved in next door ripped out the plants that the old lady who lived there previously had planted. Ridiculous because it's really none of my business.
Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
I spent a fortune and many years creating my garden in Belgium, mulching and improving the oil, planting it with trees, shrubs, climbers, perennials, bulbs and a pond to provide food and cover for all sorts of wildlife from invertebrates to birds and hedgehogs to the point where rare species were listed by the local council. The new owners have levelled it and put up a sleeper fence at the back boundary to separate it from the arable field behind which is now 3' higher.
50+ clems, 50+ roses, 100+ shrubs and evergreens, over a dozen trees and countless perennials and bulbs, all ripped out without thinking to offer any to anyone interested.
Fortunately we are now 800js away and I can avoid going past it if we visit up there.
Good job I brought some of my precious clems and roses and other treasures in pots!
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
I’m sure the previous owners of our house are horrified at what we have done. We removed a huge bed of azaleas after a few years. They had a very limited flowering period, were in clashing colours, and got covered in dead leaves from the trees. The bed was so wide that it was impossible to get anywhere near the middle to remove the leaves or trim the shrubs. In our defence, we have put in lots of pretty alternatives.
The only gardeners who were here before me were sheep, who kept the grass shorter than I do. I imagine they are a little sad to see how I've let it get all messy and full of flowers, but at least they don't stand by the fence and bleat about it.
I did a lot of the 'damage' to Mum's garden myself - or got a gardener to do it. He dug over the large beds and put it all to lawn so it could be kept looking decent for the sale while I was too far away to actually maintain it. The lady who bought it basically had a tabula rasa with a few mature shrubs and an old apple tree. The nice perennials that came out - or parts of them - are in my garden now
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
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They removed the handrails from the deck in the back garden. Very odd - as it was about four feet from the ground. Their garden though. I try not to go past it if I can.
There's another new set of people in it now, and at least they haven't chopped the Amelanchier at the front gate in half, like the first lot did...
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
50+ clems, 50+ roses, 100+ shrubs and evergreens, over a dozen trees and countless perennials and bulbs, all ripped out without thinking to offer any to anyone interested.
Fortunately we are now 800js away and I can avoid going past it if we visit up there.
Good job I brought some of my precious clems and roses and other treasures in pots!
I did a lot of the 'damage' to Mum's garden myself - or got a gardener to do it. He dug over the large beds and put it all to lawn so it could be kept looking decent for the sale while I was too far away to actually maintain it. The lady who bought it basically had a tabula rasa with a few mature shrubs and an old apple tree. The nice perennials that came out - or parts of them - are in my garden now
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
I've made the most of the flippin' wind, and cut the grass.