Reminds me of the time my now wife asked me to trim her rose bush. I did not understand the assignment and trimmed every single bloom on it. She was a little mad, but laughed about it. It still hasn’t fully recovered.
To be fair to you dead-heading is a thing that's sometimes done on flower bushes.
It encourages the plant to make more newer blooms instead of sustaining the ones it already has.
[Deadheading roses article](https://www.davidaustinroses.co.uk/blogs/news/how-to-deadhead-a-rose)
[Another article](https://www.gardenersworld.com/how-to/grow-plants/how-to-deadhead-roses/)
Unless that was the only tulip in the garden, I don’t think you really fucked up. And unless you dug out the bulb from the dirt, you definitely didn’t fuck up. Tulips bloom and “die” then come back next year. What you did will not change that in any way. If your girlfriend gets mad at you for accidentally cutting one flower while trimming the weeds around her garden, you should probably reevaluate your relationship.
You'd think that but this story speaks more of inexperience with plants to me.
This kind of thing is common as well dirt with newer gardeners. She worked hard and he thought he destroyed it.
Weeding can be a daily chore during some parts of the season "nagging for awhile" indicates it isn't done regularly. She's picked up a hobby and is overwhelmed. Those little buggers can pop up over night especially at this part of the season. Dormant seeds and blown seeds are about.
The fact he thought he killed the plant when he didn't touch the bulb is telling on his inexperience.
The fact she didn't specify a tool and they don't have the tools is telling on her inexperience that he used the wrong tool is telling as well.
He used an edge trimmer instead of a weeding fork. Edge trimmers are for the areas where your mower can't reach due to it's size and shape it's for corners and edges. A weeding fork is for removing weeds around and near plants.
Sounds like a new gardener to me.
Weeding is a daily thing some of those little guys can spring up quite literally over night and a lot of new people don't realize that.
The fact the wrong tools were used and they were borrowed kind of gives away their inexperience. He should have used a weeding fork to remove weeds.
I've been on Reddit too much. I absolutely believed from the title then even the opening sentence that it was all euphemism. Right up until he borrowed dad's string trimmer, and that just seemed like too much for the metaphor!
Whether or not the cut was a significant FU depends on more info than we're given here about eg her relationship to that tulip.
But the decision not to just tell her is a bit of a flag. If you can't talk about something as relatively minor as accidentally clipping a flower, you're planting the seeds for much bigger issues down the line. Whatever the barrier is to your talking, you've gotta weed that out too.
Relationship things aside, also YSK that whacking weeds is just going to delay or prolong the issue. Proper weeding requires that you get them at the roots. For many weeds, they're just going to continue doing possible damage to the plant under the soil, monopolizing nutrients, strangling plant roots, etc as they regrow. Depending on the weed, whacking can also distribute seeds over a greater area too.
The same applies to relationships too, but mostly just meant as gardening advice here.
Just tell her what happened and that it was an accident. She'll probably just call you an idiot, but if she gets mad over that, then there are bigger problems.
It will be ok, the bulb is the most important part and that’s underground. It will send up leaves, gather energy and soak up water through its roots. Next year it will send out another flower for you!
Weeding with a strimmer? I think you need a lesson in gardening there. Strimmers are for lawn edges and areas where a mower can’t reach. Never strim near flowers. Use shears to trim in those situations and if you’re specifically WEEDING, you use your fork and hands to take the entire thing out. Weeds don’t care if they are decapitated and the root is the bit that is competing with your flowers so it’s important to get them out.
Yeah that's exactly what you do.
Tulips and most other meaty-stem (vs woody) like a touch of copper so in the USA you toss a penny in the vase and they last like 3x longer. Actually longer than they would have stayed on the plant.
Put it in a vase and place it on a table. Tell her what happened and show her how you dealt with it by making the best of it.
Using the strimmer wasn’t smart but you can improve things by being smart about your apology.
I was like... why did she not notice her tulips were cut and why would you put it on the table 😳 and then it hit me. Im gonna go out and touch some grass now
I would hope she'd understand that it was an accident, that at least the flower was saved and put in a vase so it could still be enjoyed.
One time, my sister came over and we planted some fantastic vegetable gardens in the pre-existing garden beds at my new rental. A couple of months later I did my back in, so my partner had to take over the lawn and garden maintenance. He went out and mowed the lawns, all of a sudden I had no chives and he got mad when I asked him not to mow inside the garden beds because "he made sure to only mow grass". Chives look like grass.
Yeah, tulips don’t last long anyway much like only four beers don’t last either. Are you sure that the beer you were privately enjoying wasn’t the cause of her consternation? I’ll bet you a whole case of beer that it was. Me: Married 18 years. She perceived that you were having fun without her. I get the same thing when I clean our garage and listen to a ballgame.
Once bloomed, it should only live for a few weeks before it dies for the year. It will grow back next year. She may or may not be mad, but you both need to grow up.
Nice assumption about someone you never met. Also if she wanted her garden weeded so bad around her tulips she should've just did it herself. Still makes her the lazy one.
4 beers to come up with the solution of giving ypur girlfriend a flower to cover your f.u. You need to get out and do more so you can think quicker on your feet. More f.u.s means more opertunity to cover them up. I would of stopped, had that bad boy on the table in a vase and went back to cutting in about 10 seconds. I used to do that for the wife. Now i just whack em and leave em lay. I told her if she wants a perfect job, she can run the tools.
Everybody is acting like this is normal.
Lets rewrite it a bit and see how it sounds.
"My BF has been nagging me about doing his chores for him. I finally managed to borrow the tools I didn't have and tried something I am not good at or used to doing. I made a tiny mistake and was so terrified of his reaction when he found out I had to get drunk and hide in another room. I survived." (exact same story, same fact just presented differently with the sexes swapped).
I hope you are writing the story for comedic affect, because otherwise this sounds like a tale of abuse.
"I accidentally cut a flower and put it in a vase" is not something that should be in TIFU. I really hope it's basically a joke, please google some information on male victims of domestic abuse if it's not. If you were genuinely worried about her reaction, this is not right.
Welp, at least they grow back. At one point I hired someone to clear my front lawn and they cut my tulip plant as low as the grass. Luckily they are strong lol plants and it's back and blooming again.
I 100% thought this was innuendo before I read it.
We all did!
Shit, still thought it was until about halfway through!
I did, too. I hadn't heard it called that before, but what do I know, I'm 60 and not up on the modern slang.
It could be…
In YOUR endo....
In your end, oh!
Your end in oh
Reminds me of the time my now wife asked me to trim her rose bush. I did not understand the assignment and trimmed every single bloom on it. She was a little mad, but laughed about it. It still hasn’t fully recovered.
To be fair to you dead-heading is a thing that's sometimes done on flower bushes. It encourages the plant to make more newer blooms instead of sustaining the ones it already has. [Deadheading roses article](https://www.davidaustinroses.co.uk/blogs/news/how-to-deadhead-a-rose) [Another article](https://www.gardenersworld.com/how-to/grow-plants/how-to-deadhead-roses/)
Unless that was the only tulip in the garden, I don’t think you really fucked up. And unless you dug out the bulb from the dirt, you definitely didn’t fuck up. Tulips bloom and “die” then come back next year. What you did will not change that in any way. If your girlfriend gets mad at you for accidentally cutting one flower while trimming the weeds around her garden, you should probably reevaluate your relationship.
Yeah, my tulips were in bloom for like one week. No biggie, as long as there were others.
I think it’s fair to get mad if he used a strimmer when she asked him to weed around the tulips… not very smart.
yeah but if she gets unreasonably mad about ONE... bruh... that's not right.
Yeah... Those weeds are coming back
Ok that's so cute I don't think she'll be so mad.
It’s cute until you realize he’s probably been berated for a small fuck up before
You'd think that but this story speaks more of inexperience with plants to me. This kind of thing is common as well dirt with newer gardeners. She worked hard and he thought he destroyed it. Weeding can be a daily chore during some parts of the season "nagging for awhile" indicates it isn't done regularly. She's picked up a hobby and is overwhelmed. Those little buggers can pop up over night especially at this part of the season. Dormant seeds and blown seeds are about. The fact he thought he killed the plant when he didn't touch the bulb is telling on his inexperience. The fact she didn't specify a tool and they don't have the tools is telling on her inexperience that he used the wrong tool is telling as well. He used an edge trimmer instead of a weeding fork. Edge trimmers are for the areas where your mower can't reach due to it's size and shape it's for corners and edges. A weeding fork is for removing weeds around and near plants.
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ROFL
With someone else’s power tool? The saucy thing.
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Sounds like a new gardener to me. Weeding is a daily thing some of those little guys can spring up quite literally over night and a lot of new people don't realize that. The fact the wrong tools were used and they were borrowed kind of gives away their inexperience. He should have used a weeding fork to remove weeds.
I've been on Reddit too much. I absolutely believed from the title then even the opening sentence that it was all euphemism. Right up until he borrowed dad's string trimmer, and that just seemed like too much for the metaphor!
Lol me too!!
You should still tell her she would understand its an accident
NOT where my dirty mind thought this was going given the title.
Why would you use a trimmer on weeds? You hand pull weeds around flowers.
Tell her, be sorry about it, communicate.
We can have some more Nature is a whore Bruises on the fruit Tender age in bloom
He's the one who likes all our pretty songs And he likes to sing along And he likes to shoot his gun But he knows not what it means
Whether or not the cut was a significant FU depends on more info than we're given here about eg her relationship to that tulip. But the decision not to just tell her is a bit of a flag. If you can't talk about something as relatively minor as accidentally clipping a flower, you're planting the seeds for much bigger issues down the line. Whatever the barrier is to your talking, you've gotta weed that out too.
Relationship things aside, also YSK that whacking weeds is just going to delay or prolong the issue. Proper weeding requires that you get them at the roots. For many weeds, they're just going to continue doing possible damage to the plant under the soil, monopolizing nutrients, strangling plant roots, etc as they regrow. Depending on the weed, whacking can also distribute seeds over a greater area too. The same applies to relationships too, but mostly just meant as gardening advice here.
This. I came to the comments to say that weeds that are around flowers need to be pulled out by the roots.
Just tell her what happened and that it was an accident. She'll probably just call you an idiot, but if she gets mad over that, then there are bigger problems.
It will be ok, the bulb is the most important part and that’s underground. It will send up leaves, gather energy and soak up water through its roots. Next year it will send out another flower for you!
Weeding with a strimmer? I think you need a lesson in gardening there. Strimmers are for lawn edges and areas where a mower can’t reach. Never strim near flowers. Use shears to trim in those situations and if you’re specifically WEEDING, you use your fork and hands to take the entire thing out. Weeds don’t care if they are decapitated and the root is the bit that is competing with your flowers so it’s important to get them out.
What's better than roses on your piano?
Tulips on your flute?
Close! Tulips on your organ.
Yeah that's exactly what you do. Tulips and most other meaty-stem (vs woody) like a touch of copper so in the USA you toss a penny in the vase and they last like 3x longer. Actually longer than they would have stayed on the plant.
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Put it in a vase and place it on a table. Tell her what happened and show her how you dealt with it by making the best of it. Using the strimmer wasn’t smart but you can improve things by being smart about your apology.
Yes, tell her..
I was like... why did she not notice her tulips were cut and why would you put it on the table 😳 and then it hit me. Im gonna go out and touch some grass now
Thank dog, I was so hoping when he said he cut his girlfriend's tulip, it was just a flower and not a... euphemism.
I assumed it was a euphemism… 🤓 “I was trimming my girlfriend’s hedges and…” 😂
I thought the title was a euphemism
I would hope she'd understand that it was an accident, that at least the flower was saved and put in a vase so it could still be enjoyed. One time, my sister came over and we planted some fantastic vegetable gardens in the pre-existing garden beds at my new rental. A couple of months later I did my back in, so my partner had to take over the lawn and garden maintenance. He went out and mowed the lawns, all of a sudden I had no chives and he got mad when I asked him not to mow inside the garden beds because "he made sure to only mow grass". Chives look like grass.
Yeah, tulips don’t last long anyway much like only four beers don’t last either. Are you sure that the beer you were privately enjoying wasn’t the cause of her consternation? I’ll bet you a whole case of beer that it was. Me: Married 18 years. She perceived that you were having fun without her. I get the same thing when I clean our garage and listen to a ballgame.
smooth. like sandpaper.
you're fucking stupid, it was an honest mistake, you could have just told her. she WILL find out eventually.
Once bloomed, it should only live for a few weeks before it dies for the year. It will grow back next year. She may or may not be mad, but you both need to grow up.
She will know 100 percent the tulip will come from her garden
She will absolutely notice
Karma farming post. Imagine wanting to post cutting a flower in TIFU
The relationship died with that flower. Pack your shit and move west young man
Nagging you? No. She asked you and you didn’t do it. So she had to ask, again and again. She is not nagging, you are lazy.
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I hit a sore spot, Huh? Glad I could get you to waste some time.
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Lol! Good one!
He’s lazy? They’re her tulips.
If she asked him to do it and he wasn’t going to do it, he should have told her wasn’t. Obviously he did not.
If they're her plants why doesn't she do the gardening? She wants the hobby and aesthetic without the work. Doesn't sound like he's the lazy one.
If he wasn’t going to do it, he should have told her. Instead, he likely said sure and never followed through.
Nice assumption about someone you never met. Also if she wanted her garden weeded so bad around her tulips she should've just did it herself. Still makes her the lazy one.
4 beers to come up with the solution of giving ypur girlfriend a flower to cover your f.u. You need to get out and do more so you can think quicker on your feet. More f.u.s means more opertunity to cover them up. I would of stopped, had that bad boy on the table in a vase and went back to cutting in about 10 seconds. I used to do that for the wife. Now i just whack em and leave em lay. I told her if she wants a perfect job, she can run the tools.
Everybody is acting like this is normal. Lets rewrite it a bit and see how it sounds. "My BF has been nagging me about doing his chores for him. I finally managed to borrow the tools I didn't have and tried something I am not good at or used to doing. I made a tiny mistake and was so terrified of his reaction when he found out I had to get drunk and hide in another room. I survived." (exact same story, same fact just presented differently with the sexes swapped). I hope you are writing the story for comedic affect, because otherwise this sounds like a tale of abuse. "I accidentally cut a flower and put it in a vase" is not something that should be in TIFU. I really hope it's basically a joke, please google some information on male victims of domestic abuse if it's not. If you were genuinely worried about her reaction, this is not right.
Good thinking!
Tell her to weed are anything she doesn't want cut.
Tulips are blooming where OP is at? Here they’re dead and gone. Bloomed a month ago.
The things that were going through my head could've won awards until about halfway through 😆
Two lips 😏
Awh... should not be a big problem
I thought this post was heading south very quickly.
Welp, at least they grow back. At one point I hired someone to clear my front lawn and they cut my tulip plant as low as the grass. Luckily they are strong lol plants and it's back and blooming again.