…doesn’t weed her garden before a professional photographer comes to take pictures of it?
Is that, like, a metaphor? 
Oh god, if only it were.
The kind who likes weeds?
Apparently.
:mad:
Aw, don’t be so hard on yourself. Lots of “gardeners” prefer the natural look of “weeds.” That it’s worth the attention of a professional photographer at all suggests that it’s probably not too bushy or unkempt or infested with bugs.
As for me, I’ll be erecting a new garden this fall and winter. I’ll post pictures of it here in June.
Hmmm. You’re an editor of a gardening magazine, yes? So you have some unusable photos for the cover? Maybe you can slap some text over the worst of the ragweed. Or quickly whip up a new feature article – “When TIVO Takes Over Your Weeding Time – This Could Happen To You!”.
You know, a * really * professional photography would have spotted the weeds and pulled them him/herself. And an exceptional photographer would have kept the weeds in, but made them look like they were supposed to be there.
The Adams Family and The Munsters have the right to keep their weeds. Leave them alone!
No, this is someone we were planning to do a profile on.
I dunno, if you were being considered for a four-page story in a nationally distributed publication with over 100K readers, wouldn’t you have pulled a couple of weeds before the photographer got there?
Stupid bitch.
Innocent question: If you did not like or know what her garden looks like, why did you select her garden for the cover? Or is it the case that it looks different than when you selected it?
It’s not for the cover, it’s for a four-page member profile, which includes numerous large pictures of the garden – as she presumably knows from having seen examples of them, since we run one in every issue.
I was crazy enough to assume that the person in question did not need to be told to do a little weeding before the photographer arrived. I shall never omit that particular instruction again.
deep breath
I saw pictures taken by the person who interviewed her, which was back in May. The garden looked okay – said interviewer isn’t a photographer, though, so most of those shots aren’t usable for publication – they’re reference shots. (And don’t get me started on said interviewer’s judgment that this garden was suitable to be profiled.) The alleged hook of the profile was “low-maintenance gardens.” This is a fucking no-maintenance garden.
We ask profilees when the best time of year is to do photography. This person said “late September.” We believed her – so I was expecting it to look better than it did in the shots taken in May, not worse. The garden looked like shit in late September.
So – a perfect storm of incompetence. The photographer did the best she could, but the garden looks like shit and a few nice close-up of flowers – which are fucking going to fucking seed at this point – ain’t gonna save it.
PS: Could someone ask a mod to move this to the Pit?
Done.
Sorry you’re so pissed, Twicks.
Thanks.
Of course, what I’m pissed about is my failure to realize upfront that this woman was an idiot – should have looked more carefully at the reference shots.
Never underestimate the intelligence of the people around you. It’ll bite you in the ass every time you do.
I beg you pardon I never promised you a rose garden
I could sing you a tune and promise you the moon
But if that’s what it takes to hold you I’d just as soon let you go
But there’s one thing I want you to know
Look before you leap still waters run deep
And there won’t always be someone there to pull you out
And you know what I’m talking about
So smile for a while…
I beg you pardon I never promised you a rose garden
Make some lemonade Twicks.
What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
WhyNot,
who has been known to order dandelion seeds for planting
Okay, now, just waitaminute, waaaaaait-a-minute…
As a gardener, and reader of gardening magazines, if I came across a four-page article called “Low Maintenance Gardens”, I would not be surprised to spot a few weeds in there. That’s what “low maintenance” means, in gardening terms. (Are you a gardener yourself, or just a publishing wonk? 
)
You expect to put up with the presence of a few weeds; that’s the tradeoff for not getting out there on your hands and knees obsessively yanking out weeds every waking minute.
And actually, if I read an article about low-maintenance gardening, and the accompanying pictures portrayed a “picture perfect” weed-free garden, then I’d be, “yeah, right, you know the photographer or somebody pulled a few weeds before they took those pics :rolleyes: …”
I submit that your gardener is not an idiotic bitch at all, but is merely giving you exactly what you asked for.
It’s not an absolutely overgrown weed-infested disaster area, is it? It’s just a couple obvious weeds here and there, yes? Then that’s exactly what I would expect from “Low Maintenance Gardening”. Run the pics.
Well…it’s a four and a half foot high cannabis sativa bush right in the middle of the marigolds, and there’s a dusting of off-white, crystallized resin on the flowering buds.
“Low-maintenance” means setting up a garden so that weeding and similar chores are minimized. It doesn’t mean “letting things go to hell so I can relax with a drink on the patio”.
If I knew my garden was going to be featured in a publication I’d make every effort to have it look as good as possible.
That said, I’d like to know what garden publication it is that does regular “member profiles” with multi-page spreads.
you could always come shoot pix of my garden instead. 
Should be “Never overestimate the intelligence of the people around you.” Which is what the OP did. She’d have been better off underestimating it.