When you "significant other" leaves you speechless!

I'm sure we gardeners all have a pet hate?. Mine is Spanish Bluebells. I have multitudinous amounts of them despite my very best efforts to get rid of the bugg... Today while gardening I dug up a whopper which was of Spanish Onion size proportions and I mentioned in passing to my husband that I'd had great pleasure in squashing said bulb. "Oh yes you often mention how annoying Portuguese Daffodils are" was the reply to my mentioning the bulb's destruction. Good god, I suppose all I can say is he is Irish!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Yep I have the same problem. Nearly every time my OH goes into the garden he tells me how much he likes the ivy growing in a pot by the door. The only trouble is it happens to be a labrador violet and I've told him this six billion times!

 

These non-gardening nearest and dearest of ours tend to have the capacity to take the wind out of our sails Silu. When my other half shows some interest and asks a question about a plant, I start to reel off the facts only to be told, "it's okay I don't need all of that, I wish I hadn't asked." Grrrrrrr!

You're right about Bluebells! I 've got them coming up in my lawns as well. Crocosmia is another one I hate, they keep coming up underneath a hedge and I can't get them all out.

 

i must admit i always liked bluebells & we had a lovely 'clump' of them growing happily at the end of the garden for donkeys years, we've only discovered what a pain they can be when you need to get rid of them...they just keep coming back! its cos of one of the dogs, Snoop is a bit slow in the head...to put it mildly so we decided it'd be best to get rid of the bluebells as when he's a dodgy tum (or just has a fancy) he'll eat anything that looks even vaguely like grass...he cant tell the difference the plonker

 

Christina likes me to buy veg to grow and I say 'well you better take care of them', her response is 'no you're the gardener, you do it. It's your job'. For God's sake, now I've got some manky courgettes to look after that I'll never eat! Thanks! I just let the slugs have 'em.

Another one she does: points at a plant and says 'that's dying' and just walks off. How dare you, I've just spent months helping it on the road to recovery.

 

The most annoying one for me is when wife remarks very casually, almost dismissively, "its alright". No it isn't. If it was "alright" I wouldn't spend all my time working on it. Or even worse, "its alright, I don't know what your fussing about, its fine". Yes, that may be the case at the moment, because of all the "fussing" I've just spent hours doing. Had I not spent all that time "fussing about it", it would still be a barren wasteland of clay, junk, and a few dandelions.

 

They just don't understand, do they?!

 

I bet if you try to explain the difference between mud and compost FC you'll get a similar response to me "I don't want all the facts"!

 

Glad to read I'm not the the only 1 who has "trouble" with a non gardening partner.My other half is SO annoying as he pretends to be interested and you know damn fine any answers to questions he asks will be forgotten in nano seconds. How many times do you respond to "what's that nice bush?" Potentilla for the 3000th time! He's very fortunate as his passion is model railways and I have absolutely nothing to do with his huge layout, ask no questions and don't make unbelievable "helpful" suggestions!

 

My boyfriend is baffled by my gardening but humours me. He takes the same approach he does with my sewing:

 

Ive taught my girlfriend very well. She knows things now that I didn't know she knew.. she doesn't even have much interest in gardening!