Does this beautiful flower look like a weed to you?
It would appear that it does to our groundsmen. Last week I had to launch myself through the window at them to stop one of them hoeing the bejeezus out of the front flower bed, which at the moment is full of Anemone blanda like the one above.
During my (brief) stint as a gardener, it was vital that one of us in the pair at least knew their plants. I was good on my plant identification and my partner was very good with all the equipment and quite strong. So he taught me how to use a petrol mower and hedge-trimmer and I taught him about all the plants we pruned, staked, tied in and planted.
The groundsmen are very much "mow-and-blow" (you may remember my previous issues with them), but you'd think they'd recognise a flower bed...
It would appear that it does to our groundsmen. Last week I had to launch myself through the window at them to stop one of them hoeing the bejeezus out of the front flower bed, which at the moment is full of Anemone blanda like the one above.
During my (brief) stint as a gardener, it was vital that one of us in the pair at least knew their plants. I was good on my plant identification and my partner was very good with all the equipment and quite strong. So he taught me how to use a petrol mower and hedge-trimmer and I taught him about all the plants we pruned, staked, tied in and planted.
The groundsmen are very much "mow-and-blow" (you may remember my previous issues with them), but you'd think they'd recognise a flower bed...
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