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Bad Garden Man!
I am so depressed! You see, I have a man who comes over to tidy up my garden once a week - I can't really call him a gardener because I don't let him do anything that gardeners do. He wants to cut, to trim, to hedge, to shear - but all I'll let him do is weed and blow the leaves away. From the sidewalk only! He thinks I'm crazy for wanting to let the leaves stay in my planting beds, no matter how often I explain that leaves decompose, they become natural food for the plants, they improve the soil ... he doesn't believe me. And if I don't watch him like a hawk, he'll blow the leaves out of my planter beds, and all of my hard won loamy soil right along with them. I actually pay him extra not to cut anything. Why don't I fire him? He is my last chance helper. All the other 'garden men' in the neighborhood want nothing to do with me - I've fired them all once or twice before. I'm not a bad gardener to work for - I do the hard stuff myself ... I explain everything - but it's like they can't help themselves ... at some point, they will go crazy and cut. Well, it happened again. The man just up and cut the only flowers that were blooming in my garden at this time of year - my cobalt agapanthus. I am so mad - all I can do is ask why and repeat for the thousandth time that I like to cut my own plants. I think he and the other men who've worked in my garden must get together for beer and laugh at me. They dare my garden man to cut something so that I'll freak out. Oh well. Another flower bloomed today. And if he touches it, I swear... I'll... I'll...
So sorry for your loss! It won't make you feel any better but the same thing has happened to me here in Honduras, only they used a machete and hacked everything off -- to make it neater.
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Hi Gringa! What is with this "neatness" thing? Mr. V's (I'm giving my garden helper an alias) impulse is to cut everything into a box or a bun, even if it's a plant that han't be cut that way, like a phormium. Once he gave a beautiful red phormium a crew cut because it was touching the plants next to it too much. Like it was being a pervert!