Re: Weeding, in theory
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- Subject: Re: Weeding, in theory
- From: M* T*
- Date: Mon, 29 May 2000 03:04:43 -0400
Well, Janet, you're much more patient than I'd be...and
understanding. I'd yell first and think about it later:-)
Sounds like a bit of a power struggle here....but this is your garden
and you get to call the shots IMO, mother or no mother.
If you want to be nice about it, just tell her she can't weed anymore
until she actually learns which plants are weeds and which are
valuable perennials.
Luckily I don't have any "help". Sometimes wish for it, but then I
think about the dangers involved when those who don't know a weed
from a stake 'help' you. Also, wouldn't trust even my Mom, who's
been gardening longer than I have, to prune anything in my garden.
Are the poor Disporum salvageable? Lordy, what a lovely plant to
weed out...you have my deepest sympathy.
Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
mtalt@clark.net
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> From: Janet N. Yang <jyang1@home.com>
> Date: Sunday, May 28, 2000 1:31 PM
>
> Help me before I say something I'll regret...
> My mother is visiting and has wasted no time pointing out how
much
> work is needed in my garden. Yes, it needs weeding; No, I haven't
got
> time to deadhead; I know the soil's too clayey -- the soil was
that way
> when we bought the house. This from the woman whose garden has died
from
> neglect.
> So I let her prune the overgrown climbing rose and deadhead the
> bigroot geranium, and asked her to please help my daughter plant
the
> annuals. Harmless, right? Well, I just found out that she pulled
out
> most of my Disporum sessile 'Variegatum'. "Those aren't weeds!" I
> exclaimed.
> "I know that, but they are choking your tree peony." If she had
been
> here a week earlier, she would have seen the tree peony blooming
its
> head off. She meant well, but to do this without even thinking of
> asking...I'm floored....in a few hours I'll be annoyed.... Yes, I'm
> especially sensitive because she always feels my decisions are
mistakes.
>
> Anybody else ever had their garden invaded by somebody who
"knows
> better"?
>
> Janet
>
>
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