"gardeners " ruined bush. Leasehold flat..

another_casualty

Howdy !
I am very angry regarding the above .
Trying not to make this Sound too complicated :
Managing agents normally send gardeners over a couple of times a year to maintain the bushes outside of the flats in my small block.
I've only a few planted outside the windows of the living room and bedroom .

I normally see the usual people who do it . They normally turn up around August bank holiday and for some reason they forgot me this time around . I politely asked the managing agents if they forgot and they sent someone over a couple of weeks ago . No complaints . No cross words . All good .

This afternoon however , 2 people from a different company visited and totally butchered one of the bushes outside my bedroom window .
My builder friend looked shocked when he saw it and thinks the " gardener" has probably killed it . Thing is, I wasn't expecting a visit and although the Bush was slightly over grown I didn't expect anyone till next year .
I will take photos and complain to managing agents tomorrow .
I'm wondering if they can send someone over to replace it and if they did , how long would it take for this horrendous job to be forgotten about ?
Please advise . Hopefully with better news than expected
Thanks :mad:

TELLIT01

Many bushes will recover over time from even the most enthusiastic butchering. Do you know what the bush is?

another_casualty

Thanks for that tellit01.
TBH , I haven't the foggiest . The issue I have , is that the Bush has been cut more or less in half , in height .
It's just thick brown bark at the moment .

The other ones were not touched and one or two were about the same size as that . This looks tiny in comparison now .

-taff

If it's communal land, you haven't got a leg to stand on to complain about anything bar the bush is going to die. Which leaves you precisely nowhere as there is probably no obligation on the management company to have a certain number of bushes growing a certain height. The only way they would take any notice at all is if you were suddenly more likely to have been broken into thnks to the bush not being there.


You could write and try and gently guilt trip them into replacing it, but they aren't obligated to unless there si something in the company charter [ or whatever it's called, brain fog alert] that says they must.

another_casualty

Thanks taff.
Basically these shrubs are outside my windows which look out onto a main road . The rest are healthy . I'm not feeling as safe as I was because of the over zealous individual who did this. Yes, the Bush was overgrown and the leaves were leaning onto the corner window.
A little trim was all that was needed.
If for some miraculous reason some of that butchered plant does grow back, it has been cut in such a way so that I can see very little of it from the window and the main road is the first thing I'd notice.

in_my_wellies

I feel for you. It really annoys me when anyone with a chain saw and a hedge trimmer can set up as a 'gardener' and do nothing more than trim/hack every bush/shrub into the same 3' to 4' tall lolly-pop shape, totally ignoring the natural shape or time of year it should be done.
This happened where I used to work. Then they dug the bushes up because they didn't flower - of course they didn't because they were pruned at the wrong time.

Davesnave

another_casualty wrote: »

I'm wondering if they can send someone over to replace it and if they did , how long would it take for this horrendous job to be forgotten about ?
Please advise . Hopefully with better news than expected
Thanks :mad:

Steady on, some 'bushes' need a darned good haircut now and again.

Perhaps the first thing you should be doing is identifying your bush. If it's something that grows back cheerfully from old wood. then you'll do better just waiting for that to happen than starting again with a small one.

Post a picture of the butchered bush and a close shot ofsome leaves and we'll ID it if you can't.....or there are phone apps that will name it too.

another_casualty

Good point davesnave .
TBH , I'm not normally the type to get excited over things and look before I leap etc. I don't know how to upload images on this site .
I will take pics tho and see if I am over reacting .

I do remember the mad neighbour I used to have in my last place ,where she had everything massively overgrown .
When her husband was alive ( great guy );, his brother butchered the front garden . That was overkill , but at the time was also necessary because the leylandi ( spelling ) was climbing up to my upstairs maisonette at the time blocking the light outside my window.
It eventually grew back stronger than ever .

Davesnave

Uploading images is easy for 'regulars' here.


Just go to a host site like the one below, upload your image to them and then paste the BB code they give you into your post.


https://imgbb.com/

TELLIT01

Just as an example of how plants can recover, we had work done in our garden about 5 years ago. A holly bush was cut down to ground level and the roots left, although they were supposed to be removed. That holly is now over 10 feet high.

another_casualty

Looking at everything this morning in the sunshine, I have Taken stock of everything and think I may have been too critical of the gardener . I think it's best to hold my hands up and put it down to naivety on my behalf .
Reason being is that after taking pics of my side of the building which faces the main road , plus taking a pic of another plant that has had the same type of cut I can see where this gardener is coming from ..

The part I was upset with yesterday was actually two bushes ( one behind the other ). This gardener has trimmed them below window level so they are unlikely to cover parts of the windows that I was used to. Looking again , it looks like everything is in line as such and not as stark as from inside my bedroom window . The sunshine makes things look better from outside also.
I overreacted because I was used to the other gardeners way of leaving the windows partly covered , and of course now I can see more "empty space " straight out into the footpath to my block and the main road directly .
Apologies for over reacting