Moment of Silence please

[brewmeone]

Sorry to hear you lost your plants.

I'd really raise some hell over that. The HOA shouldn't be hiring such incompetent (and illegal) landscapers.

 

[olllllo]

I'm fascinated that there is not a single first hand account about the ethnicity or legal residence status of the landscaper and yet somehow we have determined that they are illegal.

Put down your pitchforks and torches.

I'll throw down a plausible explanation that doesn't require painting with such a wide brush.

If the hops were grown on property that the HOA maintains, the covenants of the HOA require them to maintain (my supposition) a finite variety of plants. The HOA has a desire to keep things in the community consistent and vanilla so as not to offend anyone (think McDonalds).

Our HOA, if it can be believed, does not have native AZ trees on its list and so wildly growing saplings of mesquite are routinely hatcheted.

I think that the HOA may have cut your hops on purpose or at the request of another homeowner.
I think the landscape guys are being scapegoated and if the hops were planted on the community property, (Again, my assumption based on the fact that the HOA maintains that area) then you rolled the dice and lost.

OP, Please correct me if any of my assumptions were incorrect.

 

[hopboy]

Pave stones or large river rocks across the front or as a border around the bed. You must protect the hops at all costs!

 

[BrewWench]

Pave stones or large river rocks across the front or as a border around the bed. You must protect the hops at all costs!

A moat filled with sea serpents may also do the trick, King Arthur.

 

[King of Cascade]

Just because the guy can’t read English why does everyone assume he speaks Spanish? You guys are all a bunch of stereotyping mofos. With that said I agree with ollllo about the HOA cutting them down on purpose.

 

[EvilTOJ]

King, are you in the US? Most landscaping jobs are filled by either red blooded amurricans that speak English only, or migrant workers from mexico. There's very little in between. And +1 on getting in on the HOA's ass. Hates. them.

 

[budbo]

Update:
The Cascade and Hallertauer have come back (very small but they have leaves)... I put steel spikes next to them to prevent the mower and weedeater.. I sent a notice to the HOA that I wish to opt out of the lawn service and will no longer pay for it.. It is up to them to sue, If I sue them I'm paying out of pocket.. If they sue me for not paying, my company provided legal insurance will cover my defense. :rockin:

 

[GearBeer]

I think we're making this too complicated.

should work just fine, but you have to have the visual aspect.

However, I do wonder about olllllo's suggestion, I think it has a solid foundation of reasonable suspicion.

My sister used to live in a HOA neighborhood. I'll never repeat her mistake. Lawn Nazis! Lawn Nazis I say!

 

[Bobby_M]

I suspect that any areas that are NOT hardscaped are considered landscape and shall be maintained in accordance with HOA rules. Your best bet would be to try to grow them on your patio, if you have one, in pots.