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What happens when I'm at work!

Ryan LloydRyan Lloyd Posts: 395
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I went to work today, to the garden centre a usual and my front garden was looking really good, only the paving had millions of dandelions and rosebay willow herb in it. When I came back from work, there was nothing! Apparently my step sister wanted to earn some money and my step dad told her she could 'weed' (in the loosest possible term) the garden. I had around 20 ferns, 2 fuschias, a centranthus ruber (which has never self-seeded and looked really, really stunning) and a rosa glauca....which are now all cut up in rubbish sacks...fuming is an understatement! Have any of you had your gardens wrecked by someone with no clue about plants? It'd make me feel much better to hear your stories image
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  • hogweedhogweed Posts: 4,053

    No stories to add I am afraid but I feel your pain! So sorry for your loss!

    'Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement' - Helen Keller
  • Alan4711Alan4711 Posts: 1,657

    Just wait till Bob a Job week comes, i wouldnt go to work if i were you Ryan, who knows what might happen, how much did she get by the wayimage

  • WintersongWintersong Posts: 2,436

    Exactly why my OH is permenantly banned from the borders. One time I came home from work to find he had pruned the low growing Juniperus which was a complete hack job and took alot of medning from me. Even when I explained the correct method of pruing unwanted growth from beneth new grow to hide the chopped branches, it went in one ear and out the other.

    I guess, not all of us are blessed with green fingers image

  • Ryan LloydRyan Lloyd Posts: 395
    Hogweed - Thankyou, I haven't been this upset in ages, because usually i just laugh it off



    Alan + Phillippa - She's still alive...just image But I nearly killed my step-dad too, he just went, well most of those plants were getting in the way anyway, it looks better for it. Definitely NOT the thing to say to me, I might have given him a hard time too. Parents and Stepsister have going halves on buying me a new centranthus, that's even bigger and better than the last one! ( Although they don't know it yet) My step sister will only end up with about a fiver I expect. Still don't know what to do about the other plants as I'm not so upset about those, they were just there when we came and looked really nice, might be able to get a bit of compensation for those aswell, so I can buy a couple Buddleja 'Buzz Series'?



    I think giving my step sister a talk is a lost cause, I've been trying to get her green-fingered for the last 5 years without success, she's more than happy to just sit on her computer and do nothing for the whole day (although my mums pretty got on her case)



    Winter - Aw sorry to hear about your Juniper, did you manage to get a replacement from your hubby?image



    Thanks guys, I do feel like a problem shared is a problem halved and now I've calmed down i might actually socialise with my family image
  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,444

    I'd give it another 24 hours yet Ryan



    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • Orchid LadyOrchid Lady Posts: 5,800

    Oh Ryan, that's terrible and I'm so sorry image I hope you do get even bigger and better plants as replacements.

  • 4thPanda4thPanda Posts: 4,145

    image Ryan, that's awful image Even OH was shocked and he doesn't give two hoots about the garden image

    My dad does similar things to their garden. My mum will have some plants she likes, and if dad doesn't like them as much they get 'weeded out'. I think she's given up now!

  • Scott EdwardsScott Edwards Posts: 227

    When I became the vicar of my last church a church warden declared her intention to cut down a beautiful established magnolia from the front garden of the vicarage. I told her that it would happen over my dead body. I'm glad to say that it still looks glorious in the spring. I would ask your step dad and step sister not to do anything in the garden without talking to you beforehand. I feel for you, get them to buy you some replacements and start again. It won't take long before its looking good again. 

  • Victoria SpongeVictoria Sponge Posts: 3,502

    I'm sure she feels bad though doesn't she Ryan?

    I've noticed some non gardeners think chopping things down is like tidying up and she probably thought she would be doing you a favour, not recognising them as plants.

    I've little doubt that if I should be incapacitated in some way, my garden would be strimmed to the ground by well meaning friends and relatives.

    Use your considerable skills to salvage what is left!image

    Wearside, England.
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