I think the thing that upset me most was that obviously these guys were not "arborists" by any stretch of the imagination and should not have been hired to work in neighborhoods. They were simply tree cutters and should have been kept to clearing the big power lines that run up over uninhabited mountains etc. They could not tell an American flowering dogwood from a maple, that's for sure, or they would never have cut them down. Just the utility company trying to save money.
I've had nothing but disappointment with the "color" coneflowers...only the original purple does well for me and it reseeds and grows/blooms like mad here. This is too bad because wouldn't it be nifty to see big drifts of pink and white and orange, etc.?
