Quote Originally Posted by iris lilies View Post
Oy vey. I drove past our old house yesterday. The new people have completely wiped out my flower garden. Gulp. The new guy was wheeling a wheelbarrow full of plants out to the dumpster as I drove by, looks like a last wheelbarrow full.

In my head I knew that all those plants were a goner sooner or later, but had I known they were going to get rid of them within a year I would’ve dug up all the hostas.


Actually, I’m going to drive by the compost dumpster this morning and see if there are hostas I can rescue. Ironically, my condo complex wants a bunch of hostas. Had I known that, I would’ve dug up even more from our old house. As it was, I dug up a couple dozen and sold them at our sale with all the proceeds going to the park Conservancy.

I left many iris plants there, ones I truly did not want, but digging them and letting them out in the alley to let people know they can come and get them is a good way to get rid of iris.

I’m actually having to invent a new way to get rid of iris in Hermann. But that is another topic.

and the reason I didn’t tag 95% of the houses with me to Hermann is that deer eat them. Little did I know that we would end up with an area below the deck that MAY BE deer proof.
OMG. I am so sorry. This is what makes me so mad about some new homeowners. Reminds me of when the people who bought MIL's house next door cut our forsythia in half so it didn't droop onto their property. Plant-hostile people are the worst!!