"Rod" wrote

I take it as read that most folk here have a generally favourable reaction
to most plants. We all have our favourites and pets of course but I'm not
thinking about that.
Rather I'm asking how visitors to your gardens react to what they
see/smell/touch?
Sadly I and Mrs Rod are beginning to conclude that most folks are almost
blind to plants or almost scared of them turning into triffids and
overwhelming the world.
Also profoundly ignorant - where were they when biology was being taught at
school?
In the last week or 2 we've seen a perfectly innocent Cedrus deodora
'pendula' destroyed because it was shedding it's old needles, a lovely
honeysuckle destroyed in full bud - the guy didn't even know what it was
and too stupid to ask.
A mature and beautiful bush of the rose 'Ena Harkness' 'pruned'(mutilated)
in full flower - It was cut down to less than half flowers/buds
notwithstanding.
In our garden a common reaction is 'nice fence' or 'can I look in your
workshop?'
The profusion of flowers, foliage and scents commonly gets 'null points'


Visitors to our garden don't tend to pass comment other than about the pond
which takes up half. Probably because they aren't plant people so they only
see stuff when it's in flower when I might get a "What's that?" or "that
looks pretty". Out of flower it's just green and boring to them whereas we
look and see the next flowering.
Of neighbouring gardens I have seen one mature garden with mature fan
trained fruit trees and nice herbaceous plants reduced to ground level, only
grass was left alone. Until they burnt the trees etc., in the middle of the
lawn and then did nothing, ever.
On the other side a large bed of cyclamen under some mature trees, hundreds
if not thousands of corms, just dug under when the trees were felled.
(agreed the trees were in the wrong place and not nice)
--
Regards. Bob Hobden.
Posted to this Newsgroup from the W of London, UK