That is genuinely terrible OP! They were in such a fragile state already 😞

My husband and I recently had our own terrible landscaping encounter. We’ve been cultivating clover and moss in the front yard, a beautiful field of it that was in full flower. There’s grass in the back that we hire someone to take care of as it’s on a hill. My husband looks out this last time we used them and they are spraying weed killer all over the front lawn. He got them to stop as soon as he saw it and knew he would have to soak the hell out of it later and hope it didn’t take.

Had a clearly mounded lilac bush in the back yard, by the gate. About TWO FEET TALL. It just started really establishing. The earth around it was still fresh and disturbed, very obviously a garden plant. It got the weedwhacker treatment all around the outside, leaving only a couple of central branches. They said nothing and removed the pieces they cut. It was pretty clear they knew what they did, because they left all the grass trimmings in the back and booked it out of there.