(01-28-2020, 06:45 PM)Jags Wrote: I just need to get this off my chest.  I have a client that year in and out has me trim his crepes, mulch, trim hedges (now vastly overgrown) and de-weed the flower beds. All is good except he wants me to trim the crepes down to about 1 foot.  You’re the boss, I do what you ask.  But, this client lives in my neighborhood where we have about 25 clients.  Trimming those that low makes me look like I don’t know what I’m doing.  I mean it’s a tree. They want to be a damn tree.  Ok.  I’m used to trimming them.  At least, the normal way.  But every year while trimming these down to 1 foot I get at least a couple people asking me about it.  And I have to throw my client under the bus. Explaining “Client Request”. My neighborhood isn’t huge and we do a decent amount of work in it.  I just am embarrassed to be murdering these things in front of other clients and neighbors.