to plant WTF I like in MY garden

[OnlyWantsOne]

I live in a semi - no fence between next door and mine as we live on the pavement as it were, there is a small flower bed out the front - my 1/2 is lavender, the whole lot, established lovely lavender

boring, low maintenance, perfect

my neighbours who have recently moved in have pulled up all their plants and put grey slate (fine)

then comes a knock at the door, was I thinking of "matching" their front bed,

well, no I say.... I like my lavender

Oh, she says... they are dissapointed apparently, as slate is so much "fresher and modern"

WTF?

I silently screamed in my head and wanted to tell her to piss off... AIBU to keep my lavender??

Did anyone else hear R4 You and yours at lunchtime - they had a piece all about gnomes, sales doubled this year. So clearly they really are the modern choice. And, as people have already pointed out, some are also pretty 'fresh'

Gnomes are post-modern and ironic, innit?

I like gnomes. I had a mooning one, unfortunately it broke in a house move.

We had Norris Gnome from Norfolk but, following a tragic clematis-pruning accident, he is gno more.

::gently weeps::