Dukester wrote:
My wife is the gardener at our place while I have the "maintenance"
jobs of mowing, digging, removing brush, running the tractor etc.
We live in a 25 year old house that has boxwoods, redtips, and more
recently, azaleas planted next to the house. I've tried to tell my
wife that it's not a good thing to plant this stuff so close to the
house (less than 2 feet) but she ignores me and continues on. Her
gardening style is a minimalist approach; as in, "it doesn't need
trimmed/pruned/removed" even if it's sprawling across a path or
covering up a window. Now we have a 12' Leyland Cypress about a
2.5' from the corner of the house. If I try and get her to move or
trim things we end up in an argument and I just drop the subject
altogether. Should I just leave well enough alone? We have our
place treated for termites every summer, and no problems to date,
although there is some seepage problems in the basement that I
can't directly attribute to the plants being so close. Is
discretion the better part of valor in this case, and am I making
much ado about nothing?.. What is your approach!?

--Cheers!
Duke

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Travis in Shoreline (just North of Seattle) Washington
USDA Zone 8
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