# stop weed-whacking the lilies!
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-weed-whacking-the-lilies/498885
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [June 6, 2009, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-weed-whacking-the-lilies/498885 "2009-06-06T00:09:14Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@conurepete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/conurepete)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2009, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-weed-whacking-the-lilies/498885/1 "2009-06-06T00:09:14Z")
You FOOL! I am not talking about the daylilies-they Laugh at weedwhackers. Stop whacking my damn asiatic and oriental lilies! They do NOT look like anything else but damn 4 foot tall lilies! I like them- more then I like you! I CAN mow my own damn yard, or hire someone else. I will talk with you, the daemon gardener about this. In the past I have tolerated your erratic judgement due to your work ethic and competitive pricing (competitive due to the fact that your previous duels have been with brutal vegetable thugs who could regenerate from a direct grenade hit) BUT Weedwacking 8 damn Lilies is too much! AND WEAR SafETY GOGGLES!
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### Author:  [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2009, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-weed-whacking-the-lilies/498885/2 "2009-06-06T00:50:51Z")
No shit. It really pisses me off when someone does that. They flower once a year. They cost a lot per bulb. They are permanently gone if they cut them off at ground level.
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### Author:  [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2009, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-weed-whacking-the-lilies/498885/3 "2009-06-06T00:54:11Z")
A gardener killed our bougainvillea by doing the same damn thing.
Very few of these folks actually know anything about real gardening. They mow and edge and whack and disappear within ten minutes.
We no longer have these gardeners, or any for that matter.
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### Author:  [@Oregon\_sunshine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oregon_sunshine)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2009, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-weed-whacking-the-lilies/498885/4 "2009-06-06T01:16:03Z")
You have a _gardener_?!?!?!?!?
I’m such a proletariat…
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### Author:  [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2009, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-weed-whacking-the-lilies/498885/5 "2009-06-06T02:05:25Z")
The neighbor lady I used to help, managed to weed whack through her copper grounding wire. It was a nylon line weed whacker. I plain told her I didn’t want her to be nice and trim my garden beds. She was to leave them for me. Then you have the people that think tree bark can take a weed whacker against them and not be damaged just because it’s a tree.
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### Author:  [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2009, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-weed-whacking-the-lilies/498885/6 "2009-06-06T16:06:36Z")
What were David Carradine’s final words?
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### Author:  [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2009, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-weed-whacking-the-lilies/498885/7 "2009-06-06T17:27:37Z")
I was just reading a similar thread on garden web. Apparently this is a common problem. Lawn maintenance people and so-called “Landscapers” don’t really know anything about plants and think everything must be mowed or weed-whacked. I guess I’m lucky that I’m too poor to be able to pay anyone else to do my lawn.
A couple times a neighbor decided to be helpful and mow my front and side yard, he mowed down my sprinkler heads which I knew were there and carefully avoided every time I mowed.
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### Author:  [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2009, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-weed-whacking-the-lilies/498885/8 "2009-06-06T18:27:45Z")
> [@Wile\_E](#):
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> I was just reading a similar thread on garden web. Apparently this is a common problem. Lawn maintenance people and so-called “Landscapers” don’t really know anything about plants and think everything must be mowed or weed-whacked. I guess I’m lucky that I’m too poor to be able to pay anyone else to do my lawn.
>
> A couple times a neighbor decided to be helpful and mow my front and side yard, he mowed down my sprinkler heads which I knew were there and carefully avoided every time I mowed.
Taking out a sprinkler head I can imagine doesn’t take missing much of your surroundings.
mmmmm GRRT 😕 Stop mower and look.☹
Taking them all out is being really unobservant.
mmmmm GRRT mmmmm GRRT mmmmm GRRT mmmmm GRRT mmmmm 🙂 Boy I’m doing good.
mmmmm GRRT mmmmm GRRT mmmmm GRRT mmmmm GRRT mmmmm 😃 Wile E is going to be so happy.
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### Author:  [@Fetchund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fetchund)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2009, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-weed-whacking-the-lilies/498885/9 "2009-06-06T20:43:47Z")
> [@Wile\_E](#):
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> Lawn maintenance people and so-called “Landscapers” don’t really know anything about plants and think everything must be mowed or weed-whacked.
Now, wait. Please be careful to remember that not all “landscapers” are just what I call “grass jockeys” - they can run a lawnmower, but know little else about landscaping. I, for one, called myself a landscaper for many years, but I have a BS in Landscape Horticulture - I know the difference between a lily and Wild Parsnip, and can probably talk your ear off about both.
Too bad my body and finances can’t take it anymore, or I’d help you out!
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### Author:  [@conurepete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/conurepete)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2009, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-weed-whacking-the-lilies/498885/10 "2009-06-06T20:44:11Z")
I have a gardener because the lawnmower died and the daemon gardener costs less then payments on a new mower. Apparently his wages are the souls of innocent lilies
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### Author:  [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)
#### Post date: [June 7, 2009, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-weed-whacking-the-lilies/498885/11 "2009-06-07T04:41:43Z")
> [@Fetchund](#):
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> Now, wait. Please be careful to remember that not all “landscapers” are just what I call “grass jockeys” - they can run a lawnmower, but know little else about landscaping. I, for one, called myself a landscaper for many years, but I have a BS in Landscape Horticulture - I know the difference between a lily and Wild Parsnip, and can probably talk your ear off about both.
>
> Too bad my body and finances can’t take it anymore, or I’d help you out!
You’re right I was being too general, I’m sure there are one or two landscapers around that actually know what they’re doing.
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### Author:  [@kittenblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kittenblue)
#### Post date: [June 11, 2009, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-weed-whacking-the-lilies/498885/12 "2009-06-11T04:35:42Z")
Yeah, like my brother…so watch it, bub.
Though he has hired people who had no clue, and often disappeared forever in the middle of their shift.
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### Author:  [@LunarPlexus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LunarPlexus)
#### Post date: [June 11, 2009, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-weed-whacking-the-lilies/498885/13 "2009-06-11T17:19:23Z")
> [@conurepete](#):
>
> You FOOL! I am not talking about the daylilies-they Laugh at weedwhackers. Stop whacking my damn asiatic and oriental lilies! They do NOT look like anything else but damn 4 foot tall lilies! I like them- more then I like you! I CAN mow my own damn yard, or hire someone else. I will talk with you, the daemon gardener about this. In the past I have tolerated your erratic judgement due to your work ethic and competitive pricing (competitive due to the fact that your previous duels have been with brutal vegetable thugs who could regenerate from a direct grenade hit) BUT Weedwacking 8 damn Lilies is too much! AND WEAR SafETY GOGGLES!
Maybe you should have them gilded.
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### Author:  [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)
#### Post date: [June 11, 2009, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-weed-whacking-the-lilies/498885/14 "2009-06-11T19:42:50Z")
Back when my parents lived in a house with a 3/4 acre lawn that was formally gardened in a very victorian manner [ok, actually the beds were laid out back in 1900 when the house was built, and pretty much did not change … we are talking about original tulip beds, and poppy beds, and a trillium glade …] the areas of specific plantings were sort of outlined by tiny decorative fences that were like a foot tall …
Wouldnt it make sense if you wanted to garden in plots surrounded by lawn space to get the modern equivalent of that edging … then you can tell mr Whacker to just mow the grass, and leave anything in a bed alone. Seems reasonably idiot proof to me. If you make it quite clear [like in a lovely illustrated laminated yard plan] that if they mow or whack any of the beds they do not get paid … ?
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### Author:  [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)
#### Post date: [June 11, 2009, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-weed-whacking-the-lilies/498885/15 "2009-06-11T21:06:00Z")
My mind is sinking into the gutter. I can’t read the title of this thread without thinking that “weed-whacking the lilies” has nothing to do with flowers…
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### Author:  [@Rascal\_s\_Mom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rascal_s_Mom)
#### Post date: [June 12, 2009, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-weed-whacking-the-lilies/498885/16 "2009-06-12T00:06:29Z")
> [@Harmonious\_Discord](#):
>
> Taking out a sprinkler head I can imagine doesn’t take missing much of your surroundings.
>
> mmmmm GRRT 😕 Stop mower and look.☹
>
> Taking them all out is being really unobservant.
>
> mmmmm GRRT mmmmm GRRT mmmmm GRRT mmmmm GRRT mmmmm 🙂 Boy I’m doing good.
> mmmmm GRRT mmmmm GRRT mmmmm GRRT mmmmm GRRT mmmmm 😃 Wile E is going to be so happy.
Am I the only one who is falling off her chair over this? **HD** you owe me a new keyboard.
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### Author:  [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)
#### Post date: [June 12, 2009, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-weed-whacking-the-lilies/498885/17 "2009-06-12T01:21:07Z")
At least somebody besides me found it hilarious. I was rather proud of that one.
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### Author:  [@Rascal\_s\_Mom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rascal_s_Mom)
#### Post date: [June 12, 2009, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-weed-whacking-the-lilies/498885/18 "2009-06-12T01:29:50Z")
Buddy, you earned it in spades. Big time. Thanks!
Maybe we share a whacked sense of humor.
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### Author:  [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)
#### Post date: [June 12, 2009, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-weed-whacking-the-lilies/498885/19 "2009-06-12T01:33:04Z")
> [@Rascal\_s\_Mom](#):
>
> Buddy, you earned it in spades. Big time. Thanks!
>
> Maybe we share a whacked sense of humor.
I think so. You remind me of someone I was friends with for 20 years.
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### Author:  [@Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brown_Eyed_Girl)
#### Post date: [June 12, 2009, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-weed-whacking-the-lilies/498885/20 "2009-06-12T02:05:18Z")
> [@Harmonious\_Discord](#):
>
> At least somebody besides me found it hilarious. I was rather proud of that one.
I found it so funny, I vocalized the sound effects. Multiple times! 😃
Ok. Don’t laugh at me.
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