[Rose-list] rose/plant theft

**e* <e*@europa.com>**

I have ended up removing my daffodils from the front of my garden..put 
there for a early spring display to brighten up the drive way, they 
didn/t last but a day or 2 last year.
These were not naturalizing daffs (by the bushel) but some particular 
large trumpets I chose special to bring inside MY house and enjoy in MY 
yard.
call me petty but I think crass stealing of garden flowers is rude.
Last year I put a sign up by the perennial bed that said "Look, enjoy but 
don't pick"
The sign was stolen and the iris, lilies and one of my cerinthe totally 
denuded.
So..this year I am planting a border of naturalizing daffs, bleeding 
heart, crocus and on sale tulips that I won't care about and moving my 
good plants further inside my yard..not that it will stop a determined 
plant thief/
OTOH, I am always willing to share a cutting, a bunch of flowers or a 
sucker off the old lilac tree to a nice stranger who takes the time to 
ask.
elle..off her soapbox and back in to the yard

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