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Ask Amy: Neighbors’ plant is a Little Shop of Horrors

Amy Dickinson, Tribune Content Agency on

Dear Amy: We have lovely neighbors. They are great. We feel so lucky!

I am a professional landscape designer, and just a little – uptight – about my own garden.

I try not to impose my anal retentive obsessions upon others unless they are paying me to do so, but holy noxious weeds – my neighbors' lesser celandine is taking over!

This is a terrible, invasive weed that smothers other plants.

Native plants and pollinators do not have a chance.

I have put up a fence – the nicest one I can. But it is only a matter of time before this plant has spread everywhere. It doubles every year, spreading underground and on the wind and boots of others.

 

Chemical control is the only realistic solution, even according to top, planet-loving experts.

Should I offer to have my crew take care of it?

These lovely people do not care at all about their garden. That is their prerogative.

They have a crew who are the worst I have ever witnessed.

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