To garden or leave it to others

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In our village, there are certain benefits we all enjoy but we pay a fee for these services. One of these is gardening. The community areas are managed by outside contractors but we can do what we like with the small areas near our front doors. If we don’t want to be bothered with gardening, the contractors will look after that area too. Most of the houses have a low hedge in front of the windows. If we want, we can just have the hedge trimmed and manage the rest ourselves. The residents’ gardening committee did a survey on what people wanted and, based on the results, we now have coloured spots on the kerbing in front of our houses. We have an orange spot which tells the contract gardeners that we only want the hedge trimmed. I think green spots mean the contractors keep the area looking nice and the occupants have no input. The photo shows day lilies in my sister’s garden.