Columbine Brutally Attacked

A couple weeks ago we came home and found the columbine was gone. Since the lawn was mowed and the plants were trimmed we suspected the gardener. We dug through the bag of yard waste in the trash and recovered the severely damaged columbine. I called up the gardener and he said his new assistant must have done it. I told him to make sure he and his assistants don’t touch any of the plants in the containers.

I still don’t get it. Of all the plants, why pull out one that was obviously planted in a container and even had a little nursery name tag next to it! It was in the same container with the milkweed and you’d think if a gardener was going to mistake one of the two for a weed, it would have been the milkweed.

Rowshan replanted the remains but it is not doing well. Most of the leaves have dried up and there is just one little bit that is green.