Progress not Perfection

Cherryfudge

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81870217#Comment_81870217

I can't seem to trim your post, sorry. I was reminded when I read about the cans in the park hedges, of why we have the particular hedge that we have adjacent to the road. When we moved here, there were still milk deliveries, and we discovered someone had shoved a number of milk bottles into hedges bordering the road. We wanted to change our gate and fence around that time, and chose holly.

I've yet to find a single milk bottle in there.

Cherryfudge

It also reminded me of when we had gas put in. There was a pipe in the road, from which another was put in across our lawn and under the concrete adjacent to the house, before connecting to the house. All well and good.

When they came to make good at the end of the job, there was a team to fill the concrete, who were only allowed to do concrete. Another team sorted out the lawn, because that's what they did. They Made Good on Lawns. Then someone else showed up to patch the tarmac outside, because that couldn't be done by the Team that Did Concrete, or, for that matter, The Team Who Did Soil.

Sounds as though you got The Team Who Cut Things back, not The Team Who Take Rubbish Out of Hedges.