All Gone
By DianneN
@DianneN (247184)
United States
November 30, 2017 4:12pm CST
I returned home from a mani/pedi appointment to find lots of shrubs and flowers cut back. The lawn service takes care of most of these for a reason.
My husband is electric saw crazy. If I'm not around to supervise, he'd cut the entire woods down and pull out every dried up plant he could find.
Well, say goodbye to most of my perennials. In the space of three hours, he ripped from the ground lovely old perennials, roots and all, and whatever foliage was dried up and left to regrow in the spring. He also sawed off the new buds on my rhododendrons and azaleas.
I feel like using that electric saw on his neck! Men and their toys. Sigh......
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48 responses
@Marilynda1225 (83103)
• United States
30 Nov 17
Sorry about your shrubs and perennials but you shouldn't have left him home alone!! 
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@marguicha (223809)
• Chile
30 Nov 17
That´s when I think that hiding the toy while I´m away would be an idea. Men never find things.
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@marguicha (223809)
• Chile
1 Dec 17
@DianneN Now you know! You can use my knowledge the next time.
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@JamesHxstatic (29413)
• Eugene, Oregon
30 Nov 17
He must know no more about plants than I do.
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@fishtiger58 (29820)
• Momence, Illinois
30 Nov 17
Oh no he cut them all down, maybe you could buy him a cord of wood and tell him to make you a bunch of chop sticks, could keep him busy for a long time.
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@fishtiger58 (29820)
• Momence, Illinois
30 Nov 17
@DianneN lol I would say poor guy but maybe next time he will think before he destroys your garden,. Lay in a cord for those desperate times Dianne when he just has to cut something.
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@GardenGerty (160978)
• United States
1 Dec 17
I have some stuff he could cut up here, including poison ivy.
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@DesirousDreamer (34776)
• Peoria, Arizona
1 Dec 17
Just for that, he needs to get you some flowers and give you something nice. Men and their toys, my father was guilty of the same thing. They had pretty rose bushes in their front yard and...he got a little playful. Oh boy.
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@DesirousDreamer (34776)
• Peoria, Arizona
1 Dec 17
@DianneN I think most men are cut from the same cloth haha
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@shaggin (72263)
• United States
1 Dec 17
Oh man sounds like my dad! I like my jungle of lilacs hiding the front of my house from the busy road. He likes to cut them below knee level on my sometimes and I hate it! Anytime I planted flowers or anything as a kid he would mow them down even after showing me where to plant them so he wouldn’t 
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@toniganzon (72532)
• Philippines
1 Dec 17
oh please don't. You don't want to have a headless husband!5 people like this
@moffittjc (121731)
• Gainesville, Florida
1 Dec 17
It reminds me of a t-shirt I have that says: "Don't blame me...I was left unsupervised!" haha
Sorry to hear about your plants. Next time he's not home, take his saw and hide it!
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@Hannihar (130213)
• Israel
1 Dec 17
I bet he was proud of what he did and can picture him with a big smile on his face, while you on the other hand want to tear him apart for what did. Will someone wait to fix it when you get back or wait till summer to fix it? I am so sorry Dianne.
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@DianneN (247184)
• United States
7 Dec 17
@Hannihar He means well, but does pull whoppers like this every once in a while!!! Grrr when that happens. Yes, got to Florida Tuesday. Actually landed at 2:13 PM. Lol! I know that because I had to text my son and brother that we landed safely. Don't kill me, but it is a perfectly sunny, dry, and lovely 82 degrees as a high. I'm emotionally and physically drained, but give me a few days to recoup. Miss that Doodles severely.
@Happy2BeMe (99380)
• Canada
30 Nov 17
Uggggg you can't leave him alone for a minute...
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@kobesbuddy (78871)
• East Tawas, Michigan
1 Dec 17
@DianneN Jay used his new snow blower on the lowest setting and blew gravel all over our neighbor's yard! Was Penny ever mad:(
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@YrNemo (20255)
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1 Dec 17
@DianneN Looking back, I thought I did them a favor really. I swear the flower bushes grew better afterwards to their surprise. I even managed to plant a few cuttings from the roses which I had pruned (again, to their frowns). Quite a few bloomed a few months later, shocking don't you think, considering they were just cuttings!
I do feel for you, let hope the perennials will still pop up this coming spring for you. I would cry too if anyone pulls up my precious flowers.
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