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My mom took it upon herself to hire people to do my yard while I was out of the country and this is what they did to my tree. It’s a cherry plum tree and a regular plum tree next to each other.
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My mom took it upon herself to hire people to do my yard while I was out of the country and this is what they did to my tree. It’s a cherry plum tree and a regular plum tree next to each other.


How are these cuts? I’m assuming not great but idk.

by InspectorMoney1306

38 Comments

  2. MrPie276

    Really really bad. Like not even close to being decent cuts

  3. MrPie276

    I would recommend correcting the cuts, as they look relatively new. Do some research

  4. OrchidBrilliant4772

    Absolutely butchered. She hired people with zero actual knowledge

  5. billiardstourist

    Whoever did that work was unqualified. This is inappropriate and ineffective pruning. Plum tree is going to grow a ton of water sprouts, “suckers”, at those pruning cuts and is gonna look terrible next year.

    I’d say that you’re entitled to compensation for this damage being done to your property.

  6. crosswordloaner

    Mom has too much time on her hands. Idle hands are the devil’s workshop, for sure!

  10. substituted_pinions

    Did she also kill your lawn and let your bushes get out of shape?

    I mean no offense, OP but yard and all has seen better days.

  11. rosedraws

    omg I am so sorry, what an insane lack of boundaries by your mom.

  14. DanoPinyon

    Your mom is forbidden to touch or hire people forcyour property. Period. End of sentence . Done.

  16. Extention_Campaign28

    It grew bad before and is now ruined for years. It will survive but I wouldn’ take the job of pruning that back to healthy habit and beautiful. The cuts are on another level. Even a beginner can’t cut that bad. That’s true dedication to brown thumb. They also cut the wrong branches. The good news is that at least the cherry plum tends to grow back and grow lots of fruit no matter how bad you treat it.

  18. Disastrous_Wrap_4849

    They are allowed back for clean up, but you need to work on the trees yourself since they have zero clue about trees

  19. Losalou52

    Good intentions gone wrong. Forgiveness and understanding are strengths. Your mom loves you and was trying to do something nice. Is it all fucked up? Yep. Yep it is. It will be ok and it can be a funny story you always hang over your mom when she needs a good ribbing. You too will piss your kids off by trying to do something nice and will hope for the same grace.

  20. Ting-a-lingsoitgoes

    Mom owes you mature trees.

    Never ever everpay landscapers to prune trees. Only time I’ve seen a decent job was during my short stint as a landscaper where I discovered that (shocker) landscapers are not gardeners.

    Average gardener shouldn’t be pruning trees either.

  22. Sladdrig

    Everyone else already said it but yes TERRIBLE “work” from conmen

  23. dream_a_dirty_dream

    This made me want to vomit. I am horrified 😧

  27. Last-Librarian8398

    I can relate- I was at work and came home to my grapefruit tree completely chopped down by my Mum- right as it was beginning to fruit. Not to mention- the day before I begged her to please not touch anything. I’m still cleaning up the mess from the terrible job she did on my own.

  31. cottagecore_editor

    OOT but whoa that lawn looks parched. Not 100% big on lawn care, but is that normal where OP is located?

  32. Chudmont

    They should grow back fine. Trees get deadheaded worse than that, and they come back quickly.

  33. AgnesTheAtheist

    Spend the money and hire an arborist. They know how and best time of year to trim trees. So sorry someone hacked up your tree.

  34. Chuggin_MrChimney

    Who tf just cuts off part of a branch but doesn’t prune the rest of it. Yeah she hired a couple of teenagers or family friends fs. it’s not gonna look good for the next couple of springs.

    It might be worth it to prune those branches all the way down to the branch as long as it doesn’t do too much damage to the tree itself you don’t wanna accidentally kill it from trauma

  37. ChainsawRipTearBust

    No Plumzy, for yer Mumzy, coz she organised pruning that was Clumzy. Pointing down at the ground with both Thumbzy.

  38. Igotalotofducks

    Your yard looks like it’s dead from drought. I would water that plum tree and see if it will pull through

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