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Landlords can do what they want with their property, but tearing out the yellow rose bush changed the quality of my apartment from a home to just the place I eat, sleep, and where I store the things too large or too much to put in my car.
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I am sorry about the loss of the rose.
P.S. In addition to being MIA due to a lack of Internet (no signal in the ocean), WP accepts my comments selectively. It allows me to “like,” but some comments come through and some don’t.
That’s just depressing to look at now. Hopefully, they will put something else there.
That is so sad. I am sorry your landlord is an idiot.
I am sorry that beautiful rose is gone, Doug. I am glad you have photos to remember it by.
Yes, I’m glad for the photos, too.
Doug Thomas
That makes me wonder why they would do that. It doesn’t make sense without a specific reason.
No reason makes sense to me, of course, but it could be theynplan to landscape – which I doubt – or, maybe, just don’t like large plants against the building. I intend to call them when I can contain my bad feelings about it….
Doug Thomas
Some things make no sense. If it wasn’t hurting anyone, why bother?
Exactly, plus it has been there, thriving, for decades, possibly since the 1970s.
Doug Thomas
How dreadful – soulless
My precise feeling, Derrick.
oh how sad… my grampy always said to remove bushes and trees makes our life more poor…
A diseased one, yes; a healthy one, trim, fertilize, care for.
Doug Thomas
Oh Doug, I feel for you, and I despise landlords who think they can just tear up a garden for no other reason except that they legally own the land.
Last year I cleared out a garden plot in a neglected area of my apartment building’s property. The weeds were so thick and high it was difficult to walk there. It took me two weeks to finally clear them all out and dig a garden where I planted corn and assorted veggies, which was very successful. Later in the fall however, some oaf from maintenance threw piles of construction materials all over my garden. I complained, first to the management (worthless), then to the administration of the nonprofit that owns our building. Their response was, “It’s our property, we can do what we want with it.” I was furious: I wanted to set the whole thing ablaze and happily go to prison as an arsonist. Fortunately (I suppose) a friendly volunteer with some heft on the nonprofit’s board had the junk moved from “my” garden. I’m in the process of planting a new crop now, but I’m still bitter about that remark from administration. They pride themselves on their supposed mission to help seniors, but that’s apparently only for seniors who don’t get in their way. Anyway, you might have better luck growing roses in containers that you can move away from idiot landscapers and landlords.
That happened to me on a smaller scale here some years ago. The yard nazis weed whacked my rhubarb, a tomato plant, and an herb garden that contained, among others, sage, mint, and basil. That part of the yard I haven’t stepped out into or opened the door to for over ten years.
My attitude now is that if they think they can destroy resident plantings, then then are responsible for creating new ones. The rose most likely was planted back in the 1970s or 1980s by the woman who lived here before me. She was an accomplished gardener.
Doug Thomas
Taking out the rose bush makes no sense at all. Sigh. To me, taking down forests and ruining wild spaces doesn’t either. Andy is still cute as pie! I guess we need these little wild and natural animals to treasure in a world where the natural and the wild, the animals and the plants, even the cultivated versions, are being taken away.
I regarded what happened as vandalism by yard nazis.
Doug Thomas