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"Chainsaw pruners"

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Andrewr provided the title for this anecdote. While Andrew spoke of Council employees my title is much broader in scope and refers to the many ‘landscape gardeners’ who have appeared over recent years with either a large trailer or powered chipper on the back or both, offering to prune your hedges. Know who I mean?

The enthusiastic ‘pruner’ could be pruning your neighbours’ hedge and knock on your door offering his services. No problem with that. Then ask him to identify the plants he’s intending to ‘prune’. On the basis of “if you can’t identify it, how do you know how to prune it?” This question killed their enthusiasm every time.

I NEVER found anyone who could name my shrubbery and if I were to have found someone who could, the next question was waiting. “How do you prune ‘xyz’ and when?” The whole thing only takes a moment to explain. Chances were their timing would be wrong and they had answered themselves so to speak. But if their timing was right and they had answered my questions correctly I was ready to say “go right ahead”. But it never happened, nobody ever got past the first question.

I try to do all of my ‘big wood’ chopping down so that it’s ready for November 05. The smaller stuff is left for the compost shredder towards the end of the month before the winter rains arrive in earnest.

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Well Done You Muddywelllys,My sister had the SO CALLED TREE CHOPPERS asking if shed like them 2 cut/trim Her Large Lyelands,of cos she z no cos i do any pruning/chopping she needs doing as she hasnt a clue Bless,So after id done the job l8r hed called again2 offer&found already done &he z 2 my sister your lucky theyv not DIED?Yeah Rite !

26 Mar, 2008

 

Your sister is lucky she has you in the garden.

26 Mar, 2008

 

Awwwwwww thanx Muddy ; )

26 Mar, 2008

 

A friend of a friend had one of those 'firms' to cut her shrubbery back. They cut it all to five feet, including an acer!

26 Mar, 2008

 

I've had to go get another drink after reading that Andrew!! Ok it's coffee but my sense of outrage is the same - virtually sacrilege

26 Mar, 2008

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