Jasmina Dymling's passion for gardening turned into a nightmare when a facade cleaning left her garden devastated. Despite being informed to cover plants near the facade, the cleaning chemicals destroyed two-thirds of her garden, including her prized flowers and vegetables. Jasmina, who invested significant time and money into her garden, is heartbroken and questions the cleaning company's lack of warning about the potential damage.
Jasmina's Garden Devastated After Facade Cleaning: A Heartbreaking Loss
Jasmina's Garden Devastated After Facade Cleaning: A Heartbreaking Loss
Jasmina Dymling, 55, is a plant enthusiast who planned to harvest her vast flower garden to sell bouquets in Malmö over the weekend. However, after a roof and facade cleaning of her house, nearly her entire garden perished.
"I can hardly go out into the garden now because it makes me want to cry. I've spent hundreds of hours and my entire vacation prepping and fixing," she says.
Last Monday, Jasmina Dymling and her partner had scheduled a roof and facade cleaning for their villa outside Malmö. They were advised to "cover plants near the facade" before three workers arrived to clean the property.
Jasmina has no plants along the facade, which is paved with stones. However, she has hundreds of flowers—dahlias, sunflowers, cosmos, cornflowers, wax flowers, ornamental grasses, and everlasting flowers—in her garden.
Describing herself as a "cultivation fanatic," she is obsessed with everything related to plants and gardening. In her spare time, she sells bouquets from her garden, and last year, she sold for the first time at Möllevångstorget.
"It went so well, and now we've just moved to this house because I insisted to my partner that we need a bigger garden for my cultivation. In the previous garden, I had 650 square meters; here, we have 1,400," she says.
The Garden Dies
Since moving last winter, Jasmina has cultivated an area of 500 square meters. She estimates spending 40,000 kronor on seeds, bulbs, soil, and fertilizer, and hundreds of hours planting.
"Cultivation is my greatest hobby. And this weekend, I was going to start selling my flowers. I had prepped and made everything ready," she says.
But that didn't happen.
The day after the roof and facade cleaning began, the flowers started wilting. Jasmina now estimates that two-thirds of her garden, including her large vegetable patch, has died.
"It's like there's been tissue death; it gets worse and worse all the time! I can hardly go out into the garden now because it makes me want to cry. I've spent hundreds of hours and my entire vacation prepping and fixing," she says.
Very Disappointed
Jasmina later realized that the cleaning agent, sodium hypochlorite, used during the facade cleaning is toxic to plants. She is very disappointed that the company did not inform her that the entire garden was at risk of damage.
"If three guys come to us and see that there are enormous plantings around the house, and they know, hopefully, that it's a toxic agent that absolutely shouldn't be used near watercourses and plantings. Why say nothing? Couldn't they just have informed us?"
She has contacted the company that performed the service, but they claim it is Jasmina's responsibility to cover her crops and stated in an email to her that compensation is not an option. For Jasmina, this is incomprehensible.
"They said nothing about covering everything, just right next to the facade. It's impossible for me to know that it can destroy an entire garden. It came as a shock," she says.
Expressen has contacted the company, which has chosen not to comment.