April 28
The garden designer came over today and I won’t go into my litany of issues again, let’s just say her replies, of course and who would expect otherwise, were to tell me what I must be doing wrong.
My no-maintenance, run-the-automatic-irrigation-and-go-travelling landscape turns out to be not that at all. Too much water, too little water, spray this, fertilize that, cut back this, that will grow, you have to wait for those, etc. ETC.
At least I know now she’s not going to do anything more than replant the trees. So I’m going to have to pay my gardener more to deal with all this, and I’m going to have to learn what needs to be done..and go shopping for product, and for replacement plants. My gardener is happy to do whatever I ask but he has never once made a maintenance suggestion.
Ok, onward!