Today our landscape maintenance company came to visit. They cut back the ninebarks that I had just trimmed to below the 4′ threshold the association allows, and made them into skinny little pillars. They will not flower this year.
They stepped on on daylily and broke it off.
Then they came through with the blowers. I watched as they blew at a daylily, that had absolutely no trimmed branches or leaves even remotely left around it, until the bud blew off.
I have let our association know I will be pulling the daylilies over the next month.
Heartbreaking. The garden survived a re-roof. But not the landscape maintenance team. I have recommended that with the current level of landscaping maintenance team knowledge and attentiveness to detail, the refresh be only leafy, not even flowering, shrubs.
I think the lesson is … there is a huge difference between a well loved garden and townhome landscaping.
Susan's Daily Garden 