Wild Home Owner

As a follow up to 'ground control'.....

The landscapers recently paid us a visit. Alex was home to converse with the nice man about the weeds that had been growing out of control in the landscaped area. He asked if the nice man and his crew could take care of the problem for us. He did a great job! Everything was out and gone. Our front walk never looked so good!

I guess the nice man noticed a hint of irritation in Alex's tone while they began the conversation. The nice man felt it necessary to share a tid bid of information with us about why everyone else's flower beds, front walks, shrubs and bushes looked so nice compared to our neglected part of the lot.

The previous owner(s) instructed the landscaping company to not touch anything around our unit.

I couldn't believe it! Why the hell not? Who would intentionally want queen ann's lace, and weeds growing in their plant beds? And what we thought was regular ground cover turned out to be a kind of weed as well (yes, they were pulled out).

Having cleared up the issue, we are hoping our once beautiful leafy green shrubs will come back full force now that it does not have to compete with ANYTHING ELSE in it's plant bed.

Also, we are hoping the family of chipmunks will move onto someone else's pastures now that their grounc cover and food supply are gone.