I feel misled by her about gardening - more fool me, I guess!
-The cut flower area that I only ever saw her cut overgrown cosmos out of (who EVER could have predicted that they'd have too many cosmos in all their beds when she was planting 800 million cosmos seed packets!) Not much of a cut flower garden.
-Her veggie beds that she only ever seemed to pick beans and a few peas out of - and then left it for months to wallow and go to seed. She also kept buying and replacing lettuces and then just letting them go to seed?! (Edit: Forgot to mention her leaving all these vegetables to get huge and inedible and seemingly for no reason? Like the zucchinis and butternut squash. Why not pick it? Why leave it there? I just don't get it.)
-The endless buying of old bathtubs and old metal whatsits to slop some plants into and then forget about and never use for anything. It looks like a junkyard by now. And they've just got a new one made of old wood awkwardly sitting next to her raised beds.
-As someone else said, after she planted her seedlings, she seemed to think "right, that's all sorted now", and promptly hired someone to take care of it all and weed it. Avoids calling said person "the gardener" because that would only show to everyone how disingenuous the entire gardening thing has been. She hasn't actually
gardened.
She's shown no interest in actually learning about plants and their needs, pruning techniques and seasonal work required - none of the actual hard work and care that goes into having a garden and maintaining it. She just buys things and puts them on display.
She really was just doing it all for show and because it was a trend during lockdown that she figured she could cash in on.
She cares as much as they've shown they care about the pond in the yard. This whole house and garden is wasted on these people. She just wants pretty backdrops for her AD's.
Bit of a rant there