The arborists are butchers

[Doreen Peri]

I am in mourning.

I scheduled some much needed tree work. I had 2 trees which were right up against my house cut down and the rest of the trees on my wooded lot pruned.

But their idea of pruning was major surgery.

I am mourning the loss of foliage. They took large branches down when I only wanted the offshoots trimmed back.

It was hard to supervise the job yesterday in the rain. They worked in the rain. We have a language problem in this country. I speak English. They spoke Spanish. It's very difficult to point and describe in English when someone is listening in Spanish.

I feel like I took my offspring to the dentist to have their wisdom teeth pulled and the dentist did a tonsillectomy while he was there.

Let there be lots of rain.

The lesson? Don't go verbal. Get a contract in writing which specifically states the work needed to be done.

I'm off to the nursery to buy some ornamental grasses. Out with the old, in with the new.

This is why I never go to the hair salon to have my hair cut. I ask them to trim 2 inches and they take off 8-10. Happens every time.

It is also why, when I edit a piece of writing, I cut some away and add some. There's such a thing as trimming too much.

If I were an adept internet poster, I would ask you all a question now to give you reason to reply. But I have nothing to ask.

I'm in mourning. Forgive me.

[judih]

oh, i know this pain.
i remember when the helpful gardener trimmed the only bit of privacy we had on this postage stamp front yard. Our 3 6' evergreens were trimmed down to 2".

Why oh why i mourned? Oh! i was told...Oh! It was time. They needed to be trimmed. Now you've got 'more light'.

And there they are, 3 years later barely approaching 2' tall, and with this plentitude of light, one would think they'd begin to look at 3'.

The only trees they don't trim are the pecans which heap our roof with leaves, plug up our eavestroughs and leave pollen for sneezing. They also attract all the pecan lovers who chomp through the crackling leaves and stomp on the hard pecan shells at 5 a.m. Saturday morning.

But enough about me.
i'm so sorry, dor. May there be a relief in small plant life to encourage your sense of photosynthetic justice.

[Dave The Dov]

I have a backyard neighbor along the side. Who decided to clear away everything along their side of the fenceline. In doing so they had cut down two rose bushes that are on my side of the fenceline. I was not happy when I discovered it. But there may be a chance that it could come back next spring. So I'll have to wait and see.
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[whimsicaldeb]

The don't sound like they were ISA Certified and if they told you they were, but really aren't - you have grounds for a law suit.

I’m sorry about your trees. May they recover soon

[Arcadia]

oh...measure problems.
Here is illegal to podar trees that are in the streets (that includes the ones that are in front of your home too). The municipal workers do that.
But if the trees are inside your home you can do what you want. Three years ago we podamos two paraisos. We asked our neighbor that used to do gardening in different houses as a work to do it. He did the job while we weren't at home... he left only the two troncos, all the principal big ramas of the trees were gone... and we all talked spanish.

[mtmynd]

Dor'... the problem was: you offered them money to do a job. They wanted to make sure they didn't have to do the job twice. And since you don't speak their language.... they made sure.