Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, a Democrat, has faced a national backlash for the drastic and confusing expansion of her stay-at-home order, issued April 9 in an overreaching attempt to curb the state’s severe coronavirus outbreak. While many of the order’s provisions have garnered scrutiny, Whitmer’s ban on landscaping work and the closure of garden centers and nurseries have drawn exceptional ire.

When discussing this portion of her ban with NBC’s Today show on Wednesday, Whitmer attempted to say her restrictions didn’t matter, because the weather wasn’t good anyway. “I’ve got snow on the ground here in Michigan … the fact that we’re cracking down on … planting, or landscaping, or golfing really for a couple more weeks isn’t going to meaningfully impact people’s ability to do it because the snow will do that in and of itself.”