When the window cleaners come round, they start stomping all over my front. As I'm always working from home these days I dash straight over to the window and tell them off 😆. I expect they think I'm a weirdo but as you know, a lot of effort goes into this stuff. All winter I wait for my crocuses and I'm not having them destroy them in seconds!
I've been trying to establish some plants on my front wall and the workmen from the site next door sit on them, stand on the wall, dump tool bags on top of them, knock my wall cappings off... I hate to think how they treat their own homes.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
When I'm not despairing I'm quite fascinated. I watch how adults and kids treat the fairy gardens under our street trees. There are fairy houses, bulbs and solid planting and I watch from the house people just wandering right over them and letting their dogs crap. They are totally in another world, somewhere off in their minds, not on the street. Who would let their dog crap right on top of a fairy house? We have to fence off these areas to stop people walking there, and even then, it doesn't always work. It's such a shame and demoralising how out of it most people seem to be.
It's terrible for the trees to have people walking right over the roots every day to get in and out of their cars.
I know we have too many pots on our patio but we had to put a couple of the larger ones on those little wheeled platforms so we can roll them out of the way when the window cleaner comes. I move lots of others by lifting them up as normal. I agree plants are tougher than you think, many will come back.
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