OMG he weed wacked them!

That's disheartening. It reminds me of being a teenager and planting a garden. My dad had hired a kid in my class to mow the lawn and I asked him to make sure to tell him to leave my garden alone. He scoffed saying anyone could see it was marked off, and that the plants were different from the grass. Well, apparently not because the bonehead mowed over my garden.

I can answer that last question for you: a man! My hubby does this all the time. We have some flowering plants along the front sidewalk that were planted God only knows how long ago. The house was built in 1860. We moved in about four years ago. He mows them over every year. Same with the native lilies in the yard. They are in a nice and neat row. Here today, gone tomorrow! I found some old amarylillies here and there in the yard. I made sure to dig these up and pot them. It was the only way to save them or ever see them bloom. I guess you gotta chalk it up to laziness. They don't want to detour when they are mowing. I gave up. It will never change here.

AARRGGHH!!!!!!! Does he have any chest hair? When he's sleeping, shave it, or wax it, or somethig. then when he wakes up in the morning, and wants to know where it went, tell him you weedwhacked it!! If you really want to get even, shapve his head, and his...well you know...other head. LOL If that doesn't teach him to watch where he's going, I don't know what the hell will!!!

My mom used to tell me "men want a lawn, women want a garden" and sometimes I believe that. With my dad, unless they were growing something he could eat, he didn't care much. If they were putting in a vegetable garden, he'd happily dig up a whole section of the backyard for it... if my mom wanted flower beds, he didn't want to "lose all that lawn!!" I guess men put up with flowers and other plants if they're around but they don't appear to take the same pleasure in them that we do (unless they are avid gardeners in their own right, of course). I think your black-eyed susans will be ok -- they're really hardy plants. I know that, if they have to be dug up and split because they're too big for their location, it can be done either in the spring or the fall... so he probably didn't kill them off completely with the early haircut

This has happened to me before, I wouldn't waste time waiting to see if they revived, just plant new seed. Blessing, it's not the end of the world.

my hubby is a flower guy he said they will come back it may just take a little while but they will come back.so just keep a eye on them

I don't know if they'll come back or not, but my husband was banned from the garden because he didn't know a weed from a tomato plant. My nephew "weeded" all the ice plant from the flower bed a couple of years ago and I don't have the heart to replant. Some people just don't recognize different plants, especially flowers, I think. I've often thought that the world must be boring to those who can't tell grass from flowers or weeds from vegetables. Does it all look the same to them? What a dull world that would be!

Actually I think they will....most things do come back and usually they are a bit better after they have been trimmed...so hopefully it hasn't hurt them...my dad mowed over a tree my mom had planted...she was so mad! LOL....guess something they get lost in the moment and forget what they are doing.

Aww thats too bad I'm sorry to hear that the black eyed susans you loved got weed whacked. I really dont know if they will come up this year after being cut already but hopefully they will. When I was young I would plant seeds and get them to grow and then plant them in the ground no matter where I planted them and told my dad where I had planted things he always mowed them over. It was so frusterating. I was so good when I was young at getting things to grow but not anymore lol I kill just about every plant I touch.

That happened to me once. many years ago. I am not good at planting..my thumb is just not green enough! But I had some creeping charlie indoors and it just grew like crazy and I had a shady spot out back and thought I'd give it a try...It GREW!!! It was a nice kind of small strip along the back sidewalk. My husband one day decided to put down weed killer...and of course, put it on the creeping charlie! And of course it killed it! I asked him why and he said he didn't know it wasn't a weed. I said it is nice and green and pretty leaves and obviously I had purposely planted it..what part of that says "weed"? I never bothered to plant anything again!

I think that's a guy thing, not thinking "weed or flower?". When it's along a fence, it should come down. My husband mowed the lawn once with the rider mower that I had bought (he bought a gas-powered push mower for over 1 acre of grass... stupid). I normally cut the grass but he wanted to try the rider mower so I said okay but don't cut down my flowers or vegetables. TECHNICALLY, he left the flowers and veggies alone but he mowed right over some bamboo that I had paid $30.00 for just a few months earlier. The bamboo never came back up. Your black eyed susans will come back, though. You may even get some blossoms later this year since these flowers have a spreading habit. If you do get some blossoms, once they've dried up and gone to seed, collect the flower heads. It's hard to collect the seeds from these flowers because they're so small (but you can if you have enough patience and good eyesight, lol) but you can break the seed heads apart and plant them the following Spring. I do this all the time since we have a very large "yard" (3 1/2 acres in total) so I can have flowers everywhere.

Be glad you only have one man to worry about. my husband has lined up one weed abatement man who's a farmer and does this in return for storing some machinery here. I never know when he will show up with his silent sprayer. I caught him one year after he'd just sprayed my sage and thyme. When I had a fit he "humored" me by immediately dousing them with water so they would survive. We have a battle every year when I see he's there. He cares only to get all what he considers weeds sprayed. I never get fair warning. I started putting a rock border around my herb gardens, but as plants spread, they sometimes go beyond it. I like the wild flowers, but lupine and poppies are just weeds to him. It's a fight every year to catch him in time and he gets up much earlier than I do. A couple of years ago he hired another man to weed whack.I went around with him to show him what not to pull up, since sometimes he pulls things out by the roots. i noticed early this year a clary sage had somehow spouted in the middle of the path in the garden, and it was about a foot in diameter and almost as tall. When Jose was working in the orchard, I wasn't worried, but I didn't know he had also been working in the garden, since he was still in the orchard. When I went out there, I saw the plant was gone. I wish he had whacked it, because then it would have grown back. But he'd pulled it out by the roots like a thorn. He saw how crushed I was when I was looking through the pile for it and couldn't find it. But he know which one it was and planted it again later that day. I saw a bit of water around it, but I don't give it a very good chance to survive. We had hard rain and wind for two days after that, so maybe it will make it, but I've already given up hope. If these guys weren't enough to cope with, my husband sometimes also hires kids to pull the thorns, and they could care less. So, SnuggleBunnies, I think I know how you feel. It looks like I will have to do more of this myself, but the weeds spring up really fast after the first rains.

I don't know if they'll come back or not but hopewill they wil. However, I would be vey angry if someone were to do something like that to what I planted...

Men! Sorry to hear it, hopefully they'll come back to themselves. My dad did this with my mum's first planting of evening primroses because he thought that they were dandelions!