I made a serious bungle years ago with a lovely winter jasmine in a new customers back garden. I couldn’t access one very large window on this new job because the window was covered by this beautiful flowering plant. So I carefully trimmed behind it to create access to the window. Unfortunately I managed to cut the main stem that fed the rest of the plant that she had taken five years to train along the back mid section of the house.
When I called back for my money she said, ‘I can’t fault your window cleaning but your gardening leaves a lot to be desired.’ She showed me round to the back of the house and the whole mass was hanging limp on the trellis. I was speechless as you can imagine. To say I was embarrassed was an understatement. I’m thinking how do I fix this.
Needless to say she didn’t want her windows cleaned anymore. At least not by me