I sat down
this afternoon all fired up to sent a huffy note to the
property manager of our condo complex. I have nothing against him, and in fact
am very glad he’s ours, but My Guy and I had received a letter yesterday
regarding “Home Owner Plant Bed Maintenance.”
As I’ve written before, the various
units here are anything but uniform when it comes to flower beds. The ones in
front are maintained by our landscaping company, but many units have areas
where we can plant at our own discretion – up to a point.
The
previous owners of our unit were gardeners, so I have a big side bed, and two
others in the back. Over the past seven years I’ve enjoyed putting my own stamp
on them.
But then came this letter. The problem
is I don’t know what the problem is.
Which of the rules am I
playing fast and loose with? The letter never specified.
·
Plant beds must not extend more than 6 feet from
foundation.
·
Plantings can’t exceed 6 feet in height.
·
Beds must be at least 6 inches from foundation
·
Plants cannot obscure windows
And yes, in the summer the black-eyed Susans are in front of the basement window.
And yes,
some things are a bit close to the foundation. (That's our property to the left of the drain spout; the neighbors' area could use a little tidying.)
I decided to skip the huffy note since, as you can see, I’ve already done much of my fall clearing-out, so anything too close to the foundation or in front of the window are gone. And maybe I’ll give the tall skinny guy a haircut to be on the safe side.
I wonder if they’d sent out these
letters at this time of year knowing that when the compliance deadline of
October 31 rolls around everything will likely be gone anyway.
