WIBU to mention this on Fathers Day?

[Oliviacolemansshriek]

Just home from work. DH and the kids have been out in the garden. Lovely, they've done some weeding!
Except Jasmine, peonies and raspberries are not weeds are they?
FFS.
Last year an entire grapevine fell at his hands. It was massive and he cut it off at the root!
I should really not mention this on Fathers Day should I? Help me with some tongue-biting strategies please!

Maybe leave it til tonight or tomorrow, but you need to tell him to step away from the shears.
Just point out that gardening isn't his strong suit without being too pissy about it?
I don't know. Gardening isn't mine tbh either!!

Are we married to the same DH? My whole 3year cultivated herb garden destroyed...

I also found him hacking at my rose bushes with a bread knife! A bloody bread knife.

Yes Kit surely there can't be two such feckless buggers in the world.
I definitely wouldn't put the bread knife past my DH either.

DF was known as the anemone enemy after he "weeded" the ones dm planted.

Not sure how diplomatic I can be Kate.
"Thanks for pulling up my sodding flowers love" might get his back up.

Leave the weedy fucker!

I like the anemone enemy witchend.
I might call DH the raspberry ripper.

WTAF!!

were any of these in flower?

Oh god I've got one of those too.

Thing is, he's such a great guy in every other respect, that I bit my tongue till it bled...

Until that bleak autumn day when he proudly invited me to admire the result of his gardening efforts, where he had somehow managed to dig up every single clematis and fuchsia ("well, they looked dead" "no, they were dormant, you fuckwit"), whilst leaving most of the weeds intact ("they were all nice and green"). He'd also dug up the tayberries because they looked like brambles and cut the grape vine to the ground cos it also looked dead.

My heartbroken sobbing cured him of trying to help for a while, although I have noticed his confidence seems to be coming back slowly, which may or may not be behind the fact that the peony did not come up this year.

Think we need to have a little chat again...

Bloody hell I'd have to tell him. Some people are not born to weed!

Sod Father's Day. It's just a day. Let it rip.

What was he thinking???!!!

I have a garden that needs anything and everything green ripping up. I'll be happy to provide tea and sandwiches if you'd like to fill a coach with well-meaning but clueless people to come attack it for me:o

I don't think Father's Day cancels out having the bleeding obvious pointed out. Like how tf did a jasmine plant look like a weed?! When you say 'they' dos done weeding, do you think he just let the Dc loose whilst he had a bit of a sit down in the sun?

*did some

We are having our garden done soon and once all the work is done and I have replanted and started a herb garden DH is not allowed anywhere near the area. And if my bread knife goes missing...

Could you tie a letter to the gardening tools ready for the next time he feels inspired?

DP asked if there was anything in the (admittedly overgrown) flowerbed actually worth saving. I looked at him funnily and said "well yes, the lavender, the hydrangea, the clematis, the geranium, the salvia, the other geranium, the fuchsia, the forget me nots..."

Sounds like my Dad! Maybe they are related? He loves digging up my mums favourite plants.

I couldn't help myself. I told him and he was really cross about it. He reckons they all looked exactly the same.
The thing is we've got this really invasive ground elder which is taking over and he thought he was helping by getting stuck in with it. He thought I would be pleased so it felt a bit like kicking a puppy.
I seriously don't know how he could mistake jasmine for a weed though!

The fact the jasmine is tied to a trellis is not a big enough giveaway.

Heh this would be me tbh. DH is the greenfingered one of us, he is obsessed with plants and flowers being a landscape gardener...while I didn't even know the 'pretty new flowers' in our yard were actually weeds