War is being waged.
The property manager lady wanted all the bushes vastly
shorter. There is a way of cutting the
decorative bushes back that encourages growth.
It’s been done here before. Cut
off major branches which allows sun into the interior and growth in specific
directions. specific heights, and less density.
It looks ugly for a while, but it works.
Not this time. We
have had a hacker at work here instead of an arborist. The bushes are not just cut back, they have
been decimated. Several will not recover
because of the landscaper’s brutality, and our Lt. Commander across the way is
strongly calling the boards attention to these bare bones bushes today at the
board-walk-through. She’s backed by an
arborist telling them the right way to cut back hedges. The Great Geezer is partaking in the
complaints.
Here are the two miscreants in front of a previous
cutting. Note that there is still some green
on these cut back bushes. Note that the
miscreants are not having a fit over this pruning. Note in the top picture, that all the
greenery grew back.
I love that unhacked look. What pretty flowers! I wish I had the imagination and wherewithal to grow a beautiful garden. As it is, my yard is neat, but not pretty.
ReplyDeleteThis sounds serious. It makes me heart sick to see someone go in with a bush whacker and slaughter hedges and then expect them to grown back to their original beauty. In Texas our part of town was full of mimosa trees that were pruned to near death every year. Crape Myrtles is another one people try to prune to death.
ReplyDeleteI do hope the bushes recover....people just have no sense at times....I thought the flowering bushes looked lovely.
ReplyDeleteBut they are such lovely miscreants!! :)
ReplyDeleteIdiots, everywhere you look idiots and I mean the hacker, not the protesters. In this case anyway. Dianne
ReplyDeletePS otherwise a lovely complex.
Those blue lilies look gorgeous. What a shame about the bushes though. I sure hope they grow back. Art is always trying to show my mother how to prune, but she can't seem to change how she does it. Sigh.... So far, they've grown back anyway.
ReplyDeleteOoooh, now I think I know why some of our shrubs don't look so good. I need to hire a gardener. Or move to a condo where they know how to grow a beautiful garden.
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