Your daylily will be ok, my dh got mine with the weedeater too, all the way down to the ground. They're coming back though. And you may wish you had never planted spearmint. I doubt he killed it either, snd it is very invasive.

I agree with Marti8a!

Not sure what the glad is gonna do, the others should be fine though.

I'm not sure if the Pink Jasmine will survive your winters though. You'd better research that one a bit. I keep mine in a big pot and drag it in and out of the garage as weather dictates. When its really really cold I through a blanket over it.

What is it with men and weedwhackers?? My DH got happy with his a couple of weeks ago and whacked down a salvia that's been growing in our backyard as well as some other bulbs that we don't know what are. Fortunately for him, the salvia is already coming back!

I am the ONLY one that uses the weed wacker here. Darn near kills me(it's a big ole gas powered one) but it keeps my lovable DH away from my posies!!! PJ

It does make you wonder what they are thinking when they are weed-eating. I'd use the weed-eater if I could PJ, but it's just too heavy (and loud & stinky) for me. I actually want a weed-eater free yard, but I don't think that's going to happen any time soon.

Have no fear, s/o is banned from weedeating withing 10yds of the house.

I've got the spearmint planted WAY away from everything else... it's wasn't growing very fast, even before the ole man almost wiped it out.

I'm hoping the pink jasmine would make it (won't if we have another winter like we did this year) because now I'm attached to it [yeah, I'm attached to a plant. i know, nuts!]. That one I actually got for free from a very nice older guy working at Home Depot - he was pretty sure it was dead, and was going to toss it. I told him I'd just stick it in the dirt and see how it would do. :)

What tickles me the most about the weedeater thing is this: I went out to babysit him when I heard him get close to the house... but alas, it was too late. I saw the damage and just started muttering "oh, I'm gonna kill him, I'll kill him" over and over, looking for the mangled stuff, to see if maybe it was salvagable. He'd thrown the evidence under the mower (!!!!) hoping I wouldn't notice!

Tell him you read a story where the body was hidden in the compost, never to be found.

Now you know why I get nervous when hubby mows or trims trees............he finds it difficult to identify my vines and my ferns..............

Oh boy, don't get me started with Dh's and weedeaters or lawn tractors, lol

Compost pile, huh? LOL
jolana

I still have to get a replacement part for my weedeater and things around here really need it. My St. Augustine is growing over the edging and up the side of my house. I'm the one that uses it, so there isn't any chance any that the men around here will whack any of my plants down.

Shhhh! if they can't use the weedwacker, they'll do what mine does... he walks around with a spray bottle of round up spraying anything he 'thinks' is a weed.

Oh no - I hadn't even thought of the Round-Up.... thanks for the reminder, I'll have to babysit him while he does that, too. Sylvia - told him about the body in the compost heap... he was *mildly* amused. LMAO!

I had a small,electric one. The TX weeds murdered it! It's just not FAIR!!!!(Can you tell I have a teen? lol!) PJ

My neighbor's DH whacked down some baby crepe myrtles. She had a fit, said her DH was a 'dead man walking', that if he so much as even looked like he was going near that area again she would be taking care of him! LOL

This is the neighbor who cut an earthworm in half and was horrified...said she had committed murder. LOL

I have to threaten my DH often...he 'forgets' that I have planted new plants and there he goes with the weedeater!

Peggy

oh my, I hadn't even thought about what trouble the DH could get into with the Roundup. I hope he doesn't ever get a hankering to use any. I only spray it on the bindweed...that darn stuff will NOT die!

Compost pile? Is that Tally's secret? :-)

Ladies, gonna let you in on a little secret. We men *do* in fact know what we're doing and what we're chopping up. There is a theory behind it, and let me explain by this analogy, and keep in mind I risk being expelled from the brotherhood for this. I had a friend who married a wonderful cook. He wasn't too bad himself but he really loved her cooking SO...when it was his turn to cook he made spaghetti noodles with peanut butter for the sauce. She asked what in the world he was doing, he replied "well, we like spaghetti and we like peanut butter so I thought they would go well together."

He never cooked again.

Those of you that are doing the whackin, I'd say have a DH that read the memo :D

Seriously though, I do most of the planting and even then still manage to whack a canna now and then. Maybe it's just DNA...it goes well with our destruction tendencies.