Hedge Trimmers

[Moving Sale]

Just eject, you're clowning hard.

You dig ditches for a living. I get it. I get that that means you think you know everything about like hard work and stuff. However, I can assure you that only an idiot trims bushes with a hedge trimmer in SD in 2014 for hours at a time. There are too many plants that you don't have to be a slave to that you can plant to being doing that stupid shit.

[Moving Sale]

Some folks prefer greenery to concrete and don't mind working up a sweat.

You don't need concrete and there are plenty of better ways to work up a sweat (even in the garden.) He lives in SD. Most people with brains plant things that are native or at least drought resistant. Most DR plants liked to be hacked to the ground from time to time and let go for the rest of the year because in the wild they get burned to the ground every year or so.

[Dinsdale]

You dig ditches for a living

Thinking about it, I guess I did dig a few ditches working for my landscaper friends as a teen. We of course used a trencher.

But don't let that stop your vapid attempts at smack, Midget.

[Dinsdale]

And since it's tough to convince an idiot they're an idiot, a little reminder:

For your future reference, I use the hedge trimmer on any bush, tree, shubbery or other plant that needs trimming.

The guy who truly doesn't know what a hedgetrimmer does is taking on a condescending attitude... good stuff.

[Mikey]

Some folks prefer greenery to concrete and don't mind working up a sweat.

Most DR plants liked to be hacked to the ground from time to time and let go for the rest of the year because in the wild they get burned to the ground every year or so.

Got plenty of those, and the hedge trimmer works just fine. Moron.

[Moving Sale]

So you are one of those dummies who trims aralia or salvia into a box instead of trimming it right so it flowers properly huh? Bet you don't even have an ozonator on that pool in your backyard.

[Mikey]

So you are one of those dummies who trims aralia or salvia into a box instead of trimming it right so it flowers properly huh? Bet you don't even have an ozonator on that pool in your backyard.

You obviously don't have much knowledge of the variety of native plants available in California.

You might try looking here, a society that I've been a paying member of for about 7 or 8 years.

http://www.cnps.org/

And I do have about half a dozen varieties of salvia growing in my yard. How many do you have? Most of them are finished blooming for this year but the Salvia clevelandii Winifred Gilman are really pretty spectacular right now.

Also several varieties of native ceanothus, arctostaphylos, eriogonum, cercidium, romneya, quercus, platanus racemosa, and a bunch of other smaller stuff. The hedge trimmer works quite well with many of these, especially some of the ceanothus.

Want to try again?

[Moving Sale]

So you are a newbie. You are forgiven then... kinda. If you are trimming most any of those plants with a hedge trimmer you are not doing it right. Now I would need to know varieties (you are not using hedge trimmers in a quercus agrifolia are you) to give you any specific info in plant care but it's a good rule of thumb that 2 hrs on a hedge trimmer for one house is too much. Your go to tools for small plant care are hand shears, loppers and hand saw. You cut into the plant and take out the three Ds first. Then you trim for shape. Obviously this is different for your salvias and the like which you should prune to the ground once a year at the most. You don't just box out every plant on the property. Only idiots and people who have actual hedges or a fancy for topiary need anything more than a sm battery powered hedge trimmer. Hope this helps.

[Derron]

a. If you are trimming most any of those plants with a hedge trimmer you are not doing it right.

Tell that to the 5 million Mexicans doing cheap yard work in the United States. Those spics globe out everything they touch.

Good landscape design gives you a yard that needs about 8 hours or less total pruning for the average west coast lot per year.

[Moving Sale]

Derron is right. So you are dumber than Derron, Mikey. How's that bruise feeling right about now.

[Mikey]

I don't think I ever said that my yard was 100% native plants or that they are the primary recipient of the hedge trimmer.

A 100 foot long cyclone fence covered with Japanese honeysuckle, a couple dozen obnoxious clumps of purple fountain grass, a dozen or so purple hopseeds, a single echium candicans that after a couple of years turned into something akin to Godzilla, and a bunch of other semi-tropical species planted before we got here and are gradually being replaced with natives would say you're wrong about needing to go with the slash and burn technique a couple of times a year.

And Derron, the "average" west coast lot is probably somewhat less than an acre.

[Moving Sale]

So we are back to my original comment that a shitty landscaper has made you a slave to the hedge trimmer and that is stupid given your location, which you seem to agree with me on. It sounds like the only impasse we have is that I think it is easier to pull the shit plants out now rather than wasting so much time (and money on a fancy trimmer) trimming them every year. The definition of a weed is a plant in the wrong place. You are trimming weeds.

[Goober McTuber]

Nice work, Mikey. Fuck the haters. Nice to see you finally lost some weight.

[Moving Sale]

I guess it would be better reading if I told him how great he was eh? Good gawd you are a boring fuck.

[Diego in Seattle]

Good gawd you are a boring fuck.

You been talking to my wife?

And what does she say in response to the obligatory "nice white flag, vapid cunt?"