Round Trees and Wave Hedges

We have a gardener, as most do around the compound. He is one of the blue-overall guys and to be honest I don't even know his name! He is nice and polite, and all full of smiles (especially at the end of the month when we give him his 100 QAR).


He comes along every morning and waters everything and pulls out the odd weed here and there. He also has another guy (maybe his deputy blue overall guy) who comes along with him once a month and does the mowing. When this is going on there is normally a knock on the door from one blue-overall guy soaking in sweat, mouthing the word "water". Being a current house husband I guess I am one of the only people actually around the compound during working hours, so I promptly supply them with a big bottle of cold water (hhmmm... I thought it was Ramadan... oh well).


Unfortunately they also have the habit of cutting everything back, adding waves to our hedge and virtually removing all the mass from our little trees. We keep meaning to ask if he can stop doing it, but just never seem to get around to it (maybe a tomorrow inshallah moment on our behalf). At this rate we will never have a big hedge or big trees!
Anyway as you can see from the photo there seems to be a bit of a trend with the trees around the compound... but at least everything is green!