ravenh2001 wrote: There is a chance if you saw how hard I prune my blueberries. you would cry But maybe smile a little if you saw them the following year. Grapes also, cut to ground to replace deck/trellis. 2 years later sitting in shade on the new deck. OK, that's definitely encouraging. :) nyboy wrote: Just went though same with nephew weedwacking flower bed. I'm sorry--I guess this is a common occurrence. :( larry_gene wrote: The natural (mainly male) tendency with power tools (includes leaf blowers) is to blast everything in sight, because it is fun, or because it is a chore to be done as quickly as possible. Gardeners beware! Yeah. Perhaps those tendencies override common sense too. ;) caryltoo wrote: OMG, so sad, but so typical. My husband hired guys to clear weeds out of our beds one spring a few years ago. We weren't home that day. One of them went into my perennial garden (which wasn't one of the beds discussed) and pulled just about everything that wasn't huge and blooming, which at that time of year was just about every plant. Ouch! I hope some of them recovered at least. Good luck with your plants. I hope they recover. Thank you.

This is just so terribly sad, it is a sad commentary on our 'civilization', I read where they are working on a device to put in cars that samples the breath of the driver and won't start if alcohol is detected. These creeps will find a way around that I'm sure. Several years ago a teen-ager veered onto our yard and mowed down bushes, my hubby went out and placed several large rocks along the edge so if he came back he would damage his car... hubby also drove spikes into a long board and buried it spikes-up along the curb, smart-alec came back weeks later and managed to shred his tires, so I guess we 'got-back' at him....... sally

I have Black Eyed Stella which is an early bloomer here,many scapes and buds, increases quickly. I have many Stella De Oro clumps here as I kept dividing and replanting in different areas. Very long bloom period. I also have Stella Supreme which is just okay and will have a long bloom period but not a blooming machine like Stella de Oro.I don't have Mini Stella. I also have Rudy Stella. Black Eyed Stella Stella Supreme - only pic I have is in full sun. Stella de Oro Good luck with your search Julia

Don't divorce him yet! He may be worth keeping! My hubbie ran over several of mine last year with the bulldozer. Didn't do them in. The water company ran through a whole block of VOICES IN FOG with their 2 ton drilling truck. I was a little more than smoked about that! They did fine. As long as he doesn't mow them again they should come back. You may want to go get some big metal tee posts and put around your plants if he's going through a blank moment of where your plants are and aren't. He'll have a hard time mowing over those puppies! Janet