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The Ol' Tomcat was surfing the web and came across the story from the 'Daily Mail' in the UK: [HYPERLINK@www.dailymail.co.uk] It reminded me of some of the times well-meaning non-gardeners have 'helped me out' from time to time. Particularly in the case of municipalities, garden goof-ups happen all the time. In our little town, it is almost impossible to keep perennials in the city beds because the summer helpers always pull them up in the fall... nor do they understand the concept of a self-seeding annual requiring seed heads to self seed.
I have lawn around my raised beds, but I don't spend much time on it... I'm more interested in the clippings for the compost than the carpet of green. No one is allowed to weed my gardens, and no one is allowed to deadhead... I'm a seed collector. Those inclined to pick, weed or deadhead would be horrified if I visited their home, pulled out the vacuum, and started making personal decisions on what was going up the hose and what was not. Am I being unreasonable? I really feel for these ladies who were eagerly awaiting the wildflowers. Many wildflowers are self-seeding annuals, so I doubt they will readily recover, and certainly not in time to set seed and come up next year.
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