The outdoor gardens, fountains, and landscaping are one of the largest examples of Fanny’s follies which will be shown daily for the next several months.It reminds you of all the excess and wasteful spending at the Dump.
Stephanie has ignored pressing foundational repairs at the Dump and instead had wasted so much money on her fantasy “ gardens“ to try to turn a farmhouse into her mini ghetto Versailles.They don’t look impressive, animals eat half the crap that is planted, she never set up an adequate watering system, and she will never spend the money now, or in the future, for an appropriate number of gardeners to maintain all of the plants and trees that she has installed at the dump. You see that several of the large fruit trees have died, many plants were eaten or died, etc.She just wanted elaborate ” gardens” so she could clutter them with fountains, tables, benches, and statues. The expensive pergola is ugly and looks cheap.
Before she started the YouTube channel, there were no elaborate flowers, trees, and “gardens” at the dump. Stephanie rarely, if ever, did any type of work outside, and had, and still has, minimal to no working knowledge about flowers, vegetable gardens, trees, etc. Recall Millionaire Mummy ebegged a lawnmower from viewers so she could mow the lawn at the dump. There were no extensive vegetable or flower gardens, and trees had not been pruned in decades. Mummy was happy to be able to hire Dan the gardener part time, just to mow and help outside.
Fast forward to today. Stephanie has established the most expensive vegetable garden in France ( with several gardeners to harvest vegetables that would be much cheaper and better to buy at the local farmer’s market), along with dozens of fruit trees, shrubs, etc. which need to be specially pruned, maintained, and watered, and plants that will need to be weeded and watered, She is establishing the stupid garden by the chapel and the crap garden by the cheap looking pergola, as well as the square, fairy light loaded fountain area in front of the Dump.The fountain is rarely clean or working. Mummy has no clue what has been planted at the Dump. Recall when Mummy filled wheelbarrows full of plants she pulled up because she thought they were weeds?
She had Nick make extensive paths in the woods which are already growing in with foliage, covered in layers of dead leaves, etc. and will never be properly cleared again. She has purchased several fountains, etc. stuffed away at the Dump. If installed, they will never be maintained, cleaned, or work consistently. She has no idea what has actually been planted and routinely misidentifies shrubs, trees, vegetables, and flowers.She has more than quadrupled the amount of work necessary to maintain the crap she has planted, and the crap installations which clutter the grounds of the Dump yet terminally cheap Stephanie refuses to pay for the necessary amount of full time gardening help, and even while currently making hundreds of thousands of dollars, still relies upon “ volunteers” to come do her outdoor work.
What will happen in the future, after CD and Patreon wanes, when she has even less money to maintain all of the high maintenance ” gardens” ? It will all fall into the same level of disrepair and overgrowth, like the grounds were when she first started filming. There will just be more areas of obvious decay. The only good thing that she has done came courtesy of Dan, who hooked her up with Nick the tree guy, who doesn’t cost her any money, and in fact generates money and firewood for her( so she could postpone heating for years and rely upon wood burners) , and has helped clear rotten trees and harvest trees which make her money that she hides from viewers and Patrons.
What do you think about Fanny’s gardening and landscaping follies?
