"Barnesy" writes:
Wish these dickhead shows would come up to my place in Townsville, and do
something sensible......I"m always alert to a fee deal....

Need an 'r' do we?

Why do they fix up these yuppie fux with even yuppier and totally
impractical gardens? ( Demolish the kids tree houses and lawn they used to
play cricket on, etc)

I suppose up-and-coming yuppie folk desire a garden that is even yuppier
than any of their yuppy neighbours' gardens, that's why. Ten to one the
makeover crews do take into account advice they get from the owner's
spouse and friends as to his/her needs and wishes for the yard. (There
has probably been some subtle questioning during preceeding weeks to
elicit a few ideas for the makeover crew to expand on.)

I agree that some of it seems quite impractical. The most impractical bit
is that someone who evidently has yet to master something as simple as
the use of a garden hose suddenly finds himself with $4000 of assorted
plants to nurture, water, and weed, with some in pots that will need
daily watering in mid-Summer. The most impractical things IMO are those
ornamental designs they manufacture out of timber. I picture it by the
end of its first summer to be warped and falling apart. But besides this
quibble, I don't see a lot to take issue with. (It's those gaudy room
makeovers that I think sometimes look better before than after!)

Mind you.....if I came home from a weekend away and found my garden in the
state they make some of those southern city yuppie backyards into, I'd smack
them all in the mouth.

Relax. If you already have a garden then they wouldn't get involved.

From Barnsey, In Townsville.....the national capital of outdoor life style
homes, houses, and gardens, an perpetual beer gardens and bbqs

mosquitoes?
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John Savage (newsgroup email invalid; keep news replies in newsgroup)